/** Public options for {@link walk}. */
export type WalkOptions = {
    /** Starting directory. All relative paths in `patterns` resolve here. */
    cwd: string;
    /** Glob patterns and/or static paths. Omit to walk all of `cwd`. */
    patterns?: string[];
    /**
     * File names looked up per directory and merged into the cascade ignore
     * stack (e.g. `[".gitignore", ".secretlintignore"]`).
     */
    ignoreFiles?: string[];
    /**
     * Hard-coded patterns added to the root ignore instance before any
     * file-based rules (e.g. `["**\/.git"]`).
     */
    extraIgnorePatterns?: string[];
    /**
     * Treat every entry in `patterns` as a literal path, even when it
     * contains glob special characters such as `[`, `(`, `{`, `?`.
     */
    noGlob?: boolean;
    /**
     * When true (default) the walker follows directory symlinks during
     * search but still treats them as their symlink path for ignore
     * matching (so cascaded `.gitignore` rules apply at the symlink's
     * location, not the resolved target). Cycles are detected via
     * realpath and skipped.
     */
    followSymlinks?: boolean;
};
/**
 * Walk the file system rooted at `options.cwd`, returning POSIX-form
 * absolute paths of files that match `options.patterns` (or every file when
 * `patterns` is omitted), with `.gitignore`-style cascade applied per the
 * given `ignoreFiles`.
 */
export declare const walk: (options: WalkOptions) => Promise<string[]>;
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