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Support for globbing?

See original GitHub issue

Just tried this out with npm install -g cash on my Ubuntu box with node 5.3. It seems pretty cool! I couldn’t get any support for globbing, however. Not sure if this is a bug, or if it hasn’t been implemented yet. I saw that you’re using the glob module in package.json, but I was surprised that the CLI didn’t offer support for it.

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Created 8 years ago
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dthreecommented, Feb 28, 2016

Glob is now working for ls in the latest release.

I didn’t add it to the preparser yet, as I would like to discuss this with you. Not all commands should accept globs, and if a different type of parameter than files are expected, this could cause some weird behavior.

Perhaps we could pass in a parameter to the preparser like glob: true, and then normalize all input parsing for those commands.

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nfischercommented, Feb 25, 2016

Have you thought about globbing at the shell level, instead of in individual commands? ShellJS was previously doing it for each command, but I felt like that was always fighting with bash compatibility. In traditional shells, all globbing happens in the shell itself (so ls never sees *.json, it actually sees package.json).

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