Hey @hemanth! 👋 Great to see you back here. Hope you've been doing well!

Thank you for reporting this issue. Based on the information you've provided and the context I have, it seems like the llamaindex-cli rag --files command isn't accepting glob patterns in version 0.0.7 of LlamaIndex due to how the --files argument is handled.

In the handle_cli method, the iglob function from the glob module is used to iterate over the files specified by the --files argument. The files argument is passed directly to iglob without checking if it contains a glob pattern or not. Here's the relevant part of the code:

if files is not None:
    documents = []
    for _file in iglob(files, recursive=True):
        _file = os.path.abspath(_file)
        if os.path.isdir(_file):
            reader = SimpleDirectoryReader(
                input_dir=_file,
                filename_as_id=True,
                file_extractor=self.file_extractor,
            )
        else:
            reader = SimpleDirectoryReader(
                input_files=[_file],
                filename_as_id=True,
                file_extractor=self.file_extractor,
            )

        documents.extend(reader.load_data(show_progress=verbose))

The iglob function is correctly used to iterate over files matching the glob pattern provided in the --files argument. Therefore, if the llamaindex-cli rag --files command isn't accepting glob patterns, the issue might not be with the handling of glob patterns per se but could be related to how the glob patterns are specified by the user or an environment-specific issue that affects the iglob function's ability to resolve the patterns.

I also found a similar closed issue [Bug]: llamaindex-cli unrecognized arguments: - files ./README.md which suggests using the correct command-line argument for files, which is --files or -f, not - files. The correct command should be either llamaindex-cli rag --files "./README.md" or llamaindex-cli rag -f "./README.md".

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any changes in the handle_cli method or the iglob function usage in the LlamaIndex codebase after version 0.0.7.

Could you please provide more information about your environment? Specifically, the operating system and its version, the shell you're using, and the exact command you're running? This will help us better understand the issue and find a solution.

Sources

• [Bug]: llamaindex-cli unrecognized arguments: - files ./README.md
• llama-index-cli/llama_index/cli/rag/base.py

@logan-markewich I wold like pair on fixing this :)