PathGlob tests whether a file path matches a glob pattern, without touching the filesystem. It has the same semantics as Path.wildcard/2.

Path.wildcard/2 allows you to find all paths that match a certain glob pattern. If you only want to know whether a particular path matches a glob, then Path.wildcard/2 can be slow (depending on the glob), because it needs to traverse the filesystem.

PathGlob provides a PathGlob.match?/3 function to check a path against a glob without touching the filesystem. Internally, the glob pattern is compiled to a Regex and then checked via String.match?/2. If you want to compile the glob pattern ahead-of-time, you can use PathGlob.compile/2.

More info:

• https://github.com/jonleighton/path_glob
• https://hexdocs.pm/path_glob/readme.html