About

Provides support for matching file system names/paths using [glob patterns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)).

Key Features

• Contains the Matcher type, which can be used to match files in the file system based on user-defined patterns.

How to Use

Get all matching files:

using Microsoft.Extensions.FileSystemGlobbing;

Matcher matcher = new();
matcher.AddIncludePatterns(new[] { "*.txt", "*.asciidoc", "*.md" });

string searchDirectory = "../starting-folder/";

IEnumerable<string> matchingFiles = matcher.GetResultsInFullPath(searchDirectory);

// Use matchingFiles if there are any found.
// The files in this collection are fully qualified file system paths.

Main Types

The main types provided by this library are:

• Microsoft.Extensions.FileSystemGlobbing.Matcher

Additional Documentation

• Conceptual documentation
• API documentation

Feedback & Contributing

Microsoft.Extensions.FileSystemGlobbing is released as open source under the MIT license. Bug reports and contributions are welcome at the GitHub repository.