# is-dotfile [![NPM version](https://badge.fury.io/js/is-dotfile.svg)](http://badge.fury.io/js/is-dotfile) > Return true if a file path is (or has) a dotfile. Returns false if the path is a dot directory. ## Install Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) ```sh $ npm i is-dotfile --save ``` ## Usage ```js var isDotfile = require('is-dotfile'); ``` **false** All of the following return `false`: ```js isDotfile('a/b/c.js'); isDotfile('/.git/foo'); isDotfile('a/b/c/.git/foo'); //=> false ``` **true** All of the following return `true`: ```js isDotfile('a/b/.gitignore'); isDotfile('.gitignore'); isDotfile('/.gitignore'); //=> true ``` ## Related projects * [dotfile-regex](https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotfile-regex): Regular expresson for matching dotfiles. | [homepage](https://github.com/regexps/dotfile-regex) * [has-glob](https://www.npmjs.com/package/has-glob): Returns `true` if an array has a glob pattern. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/has-glob) * [is-dotdir](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-dotdir): Returns true if a path is a dot-directory. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-dotdir) * [is-glob](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-glob): Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern.… [more](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-glob) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob) ## Running tests Install dev dependencies: ```sh $ npm i -d && npm test ``` ## Contributing Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-dotfile/issues/new). ## Authors **Jon Schlinkert** + [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) + [twitter/jonschlinkert](http://twitter.com/jonschlinkert) ## License Copyright © 2015 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license. *** _This file was generated by [verb-cli](https://github.com/assemble/verb-cli) on October 20, 2015._