Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

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• neogoose 5 hours ago
  100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing library for C, Zig, and Rust that is faster and supports all the modern globbing formats (more than libc and rust glob crate)

  It supports all the formats like * and {a,b} expansion as long as have a very efficient syscall and SIMD optimization for faster processing

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  • gary_0 3 hours ago
    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?
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    • jzwinck 16 minutes ago
      In case someone doesn't know, the standard function for that is called fnmatch:

      https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/fnmatch.3.html
• kreetx 1 hour ago
  Was this vibe coded? Readme has typos and somehow reads "fast and loose".
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  • kryptiskt 1 hour ago
    I thought typos was a signifier for human-created these days, because an LLM is unlikely to land on something that is not a word.
• commandersaki 1 hour ago
  Nice licence, I would've probably used this a few years ago on a project had I known it existed.
• oguz-ismail2 2 hours ago
  Since when `{...}' syntax is a glob pattern? What does `{a,b}/c' produce when there is no directory named `a'?
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  • hidroto 2 hours ago
    would it not just produce 'b/c'? assuming 'b/c' is an existent file path

    what else could you justify it doing?

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    • thayne 2 hours ago
      The behavior of bash would be to produce "a/c" and "b/c", even if both files don't exist
    • oguz-ismail2 2 hours ago
      What sibling comment says. Bash does suppress nonexistent products when the pattern includes a glob metacharacter and `shopt -s nullglob' is in effect, but I didn't see a flag or anything to achieve that in the project README.