fast-glob

Introduce

A high-performance glob matching crate for Rust, originally forked from devongovett/glob-match. Since the original repository hasn't been maintained for some time, I will continue to maintain it until the issues has been addressed.

Key Features:

Up to 60% performance improvement.
Support for more complex and efficient brace expansion.
Fixed matching issues with wildcard and globstar glob-match/issues#9.

Examples

Simple Match

Note that simple matching does not support brace expansion, but all other syntaxes do.

use fast_glob::glob_match;

let glob = "some/**/n*d[k-m]e?txt";
let path = "some/a/bigger/path/to/the/crazy/needle.txt";

assert!(glob_match(glob, path));

Brace Expansion

Brace expansion is supported by using glob_match_with_brace. While the performance is lower than simple match, some performance loss is inevitable due to the complexity of brace expansion.

use fast_glob::glob_match_with_brace;

let glob = "some/**/{the,crazy}/?*.{png,txt}";
let path = "some/a/bigger/path/to/the/crazy/needle.txt";

assert!(glob_match_with_brace(glob, path));

Multi-Pattern Matching

You can build a matcher like globset and add multiple patterns to match.

use fast_glob::Glob;

// let mut glob = Glob::new(glob);
let mut glob = Glob::default();

assert!(glob.add("*.txt"));
assert!(glob.is_match("name.txt"));

Syntax

Syntax	Meaning
`?`	Matches any single character.
`*`	Matches zero or more characters, except for path separators (e.g. `/`).
`**`	Matches zero or more characters, including path separators. Must match a complete path segment (i.e. followed by a `/` or the end of the pattern).
`[ab]`	Matches one of the characters contained in the brackets. Character ranges, e.g. `[a-z]` are also supported. Use `[!ab]` or `[^ab]` to match any character except those contained in the brackets.
`{a,b}`	Matches one of the patterns contained in the braces. Any of the wildcard characters can be used in the sub-patterns. Braces may be nested up to 10 levels deep.
`!`	When at the start of the glob, this negates the result. Multiple `!` characters negate the glob multiple times.
`\`	A backslash character may be used to escape any of the above special characters.

Benchmark

Test Case 1

const GLOB: &'static str = "some/**/n*d[k-m]e?txt";
const PATH: &'static str = "some/a/bigger/path/to/the/crazy/needle.txt";

mine                       time:   [63.347 ns 63.389 ns 63.450 ns]
glob                       time:   [380.53 ns 382.89 ns 386.44 ns]
globset                    time:   [27.686 µs 27.696 µs 27.707 µs]
glob_match                 time:   [197.79 ns 198.67 ns 199.79 ns]

Test Case 2

const GLOB: &'static str = "some/**/{tob,crazy}/?*.{png,txt}";
const PATH: &'static str = "some/a/bigger/path/to/the/crazy/needle.txt";

mine                       time:   [403.06 ns 405.17 ns 407.76 ns]
globset                    time:   [36.929 µs 37.284 µs 37.731 µs]
glob_match                 time:   [367.10 ns 369.04 ns 371.61 ns]

Q&A

Why not use the more efficient `glob_match` for brace expansion?

glob_match is unable to handle complex brace expansions. Below are some failed examples:

glob_match("{a/b,a/b/c}/c", "a/b/c")
glob_match("**/foo{bar,b*z}", "foobuzz")
glob_match("**/{a,b}/c.png", "some/a/b/c.png")

Due to these limitations, brace expansion requires a different implementation that can handle the complexity of such patterns, resulting in some performance trade-offs.

fast-glob 0.3.2