comp.lang.ruby

Drew Olson

1/8/2008 10:46:00 PM

Wayne Magor wrote:
> If you call a Ruby script with a parameter such as:
>
> c:\my source\*\*.c
>
> Ruby will give an array in ARGV that contains all the c files in all
> the directories. It will also turn the backslashes into forward
> slashes. There doesn't seem to be a method in Ruby that does this
> same thing. The Dir.glob and Dir.entries methods don't work this way.
>
> Am I missing something, or is there no easy built-in method for doing
> this in Ruby? Doesn't it seem like it should be there? I would think
> this would be a common thing for scripting.

Dir.glob("c:\mysource\**\*.c")

Use two *, that allows recursive directory searching with glob.

- Drew
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