unglobbable

A glob pattern that lets node-glob emit an error

const glob = require('glob');
const unglobbable = require('unglobbable');

glob('safe/glob/pattern', err => {
  !!err; //=> false
});

glob(unglobbable, err => {
  !!err; //=> true
});

Useful for writing the failure test case. Example

Installation

Use npm.

npm install unglobbable

API

const unglobbable = require('unglobbable');

unglobbable

Value: string of the following:

| Platform | String | |:---------|:----------------------------| | Darwin | /private/var/root/* | | Linux | /proc/*/*/*/* | | Windows | /Documents and Settings/* | | Others | /** |

// On macOS
const glob = require('glob');
const unglobbable = require('unglobbable');

unglobbable; //=> '/private/var/root/*'

glob(unglobbable, err => {
  err.message; //=> 'EACCES: permission denied, scandir '/private/var/root''
});

License

ISC License © 2018 Shinnosuke Watanabe