Get all file all subfolders and all hidden file with glob

Question

In my recurive function to zip a whole folders i have this piece of code glob($path. \'/*\') that give me all files and subfolders matching my $path.

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Answer 1

I am answering here in case anyone else is looking as this appears high on Google.

Solution 1 - glob only

This uses a glob that is tailored to skip '.' and '..' special directories. It matches anything that:

• isn't hidden with a '.'
• is hidden with a '.' but is followed a non '.' character
• starts with '..' but has at least one character after it

$globbed = glob("{*,.[!.]*,..?*}", GLOB_BRACE);
var_dump($globbed);

Solution 2 - globignore

This is a function to mimic the behaviour of globignore in bash.

function globignore(array $ignore, $glob, $glob_flags = 0)
{
    $globbed = glob($glob, $glob_flags);
    return array_filter($globbed, function ($f) use ($ignore)
    {
        $base = basename($f);
        foreach($ignore as $i)
        {
            if ($i == $base) return false;
        }
        return true;
    });
}
$globbed = globignore(['.','..'], "{*,.*}", GLOB_BRACE);
var_dump($globbed);

They appear to execute in almost exactly the same time on my system. Solution 1 requires less code but solution 2 is easier to include more terms to ignore.