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title: "file:glob — Pathname pattern expansion"
description: "iXML command file:glob: Pathname pattern expansion."
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# file:glob — Pathname pattern expansion

FILE:GLOB finds all pathnames matching a given pattern based on wildcard characters ('?', '*' and '[...]').

### Attributes
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ------- | ----------- |
| var | var |  | Result variable name |
| pattern | string |  | Pattern |

### Children
- (none)

### Parents
- (not restricted in the reference)

### Result
- binding: var; type: array; predicate: no-result-propagation

### Examples

```xml
<file:glob var="files" pattern="./test/*.inc"/>

<foreach var="files" var_value="filename">
	<output>$filename&n;</output>
</foreach>

<!--
./test/ixml.inc
./test/ixml_link.inc
-->
```