# Description
Add flags for filtering the output of `glob` by file type. I find myself
occasionally wanting to do this, and getting a file's
[file_type](https://docs.rs/wax/latest/wax/struct.WalkEntry.html#method.file_type)
is presumably fast to do as it doesn't have to go through the fallible
metadata method.
The design of the signature does concern me; it's not as readable as a
filter or "include" type list would be. They have to be filtered one by
one, which can be annoying if you only want files `-D -S`, or only want
folders `-F -S`, or only want symlinks `--butwhy?`. I considered
SyntaxShape::Keyword for this but I'll just defer to comments on this PR
if they pop up.
I'd also like to bring up performance since including these flags
technically incurs a `.filter` penalty on all glob calls, which could be
optimized out if we added a branch for the no-filters case. But in
reality I'd expect the file system to be the bottleneck and the flags to
be pretty branch predictor friendly, so eh
# User-Facing Changes
Three new flags when using `glob` and a slightly more cluttered help
page. No breaking changes, I hope.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
* Filter out empty glob patterns
An empty argument to the "glob" command will now produce an empty result.
Working towards nushell/nushell#6653.
* Run `cargo fmt --all`
Just autoformatted the repo so that CI passes and we have a consistent code
format across modules.
* Treat empty glob argument as error
The glob command will now report an empty string argument as an error instead
of silently ignoring it.
See https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/6707#discussion_r993345013.
* Add tests for glob command
Two small tests for the glob command, one to check that the empty string errors
it, and another to sanity check the '*' glob, have been added.
* Rename glob sanity check star test
Co-authored-by: Kyle Anderson <kyle.anderson@uwaterloo.ca>
