Hands on the glob Crate in Rust

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Tips and Traps¶

The Rust crate glob behaves similarly to the Python library glob.

:sccache 1
:dep glob = "0.3.0"

sccache: true

use std::fs::DirEntry;
use std::path::PathBuf;
use glob::glob;

for entry in glob("./**/*").unwrap() {
    if let Ok(entry) = entry {
        println!("{:?}", entry);
    }
}

".ipynb_checkpoints"
".ipynb_checkpoints/hands-on-the-glob-crate-in-rust-checkpoint.ipynb"
"hands-on-the-glob-crate-in-rust.ipynb"
"test"
"test/.ipynb_checkpoints"
"test/.ipynb_checkpoints/test-checkpoint.txt"
"test/test.txt"
"test/test2"
"test/test2/.ipynb_checkpoints"
"test/test2/.ipynb_checkpoints/test2-checkpoint.txt"
"test/test2/test2.txt"

()

Collect valid paths matching a pattern into a vector.

let paths: Vec<PathBuf> = glob("./**/*").unwrap().flatten().collect(); 
paths

[".ipynb_checkpoints", ".ipynb_checkpoints/hands-on-the-glob-crate-in-rust-checkpoint.ipynb", "hands-on-the-glob-crate-in-rust.ipynb", "test", "test/.ipynb_checkpoints", "test/.ipynb_checkpoints/test-checkpoint.txt", "test/test.txt", "test/test2", "test/test2/.ipynb_checkpoints", "test/test2/.ipynb_checkpoints/test2-checkpoint.txt", "test/test2/test2.txt"]

paths.len()

11