[gary_0]

Thanks for sharing. Just curious, is there any way to perform globbing over a list of path-like strings instead of only directly on the filesystem?

[jzwinck]

In case someone doesn't know, the standard function for that is called fnmatch:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/fnmatch.3.html

[neogoose]

That's one of the reasons I built zlob. It literally has an endpoint to do this but if you are talking about glibc there are 2 options

1. fnmatch function which is not ideal because it doesn't take into account all the path specific optimizations and does not support BRACE 2. ALTDIRFUNC flag for globbing let you simulate file system which absolutely sucks

in zlob you can simply call zlob_match_paths(<pattern>, <list>, flags, ptr)

where list would be either c string or rust/zig like slices