[ruby-core:44118] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5779] Ruby-FTP - allow easy way to find out whether a remote target is a file or a directory

Issue #5779 has been updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE).


RFC 3659 extends ftp with MLST, the command to show the detail of directories,
but it is not widely implemented yet.
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Feature #5779: Ruby-FTP - allow easy way to find out whether a remote target is a file or a directory
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5779#change-25645

Author: shevegen (markus heiler)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Low
Assignee: shugo (Shugo Maeda)
Category: 
Target version: 


Hello.

The FTP documentation of Ruby is at:

  http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/net/ftp/rdoc/index.html

When you have a local file on your HDD, you can do this:

  File.directory? '/tmp' # => true
  File.file? '/etc/ld.so.conf' # => true

I propose something like that to be added to the Ruby-FTP library too.

So that a user can find out whether something is a file or a directory,
without the need to download it, or parse the .list output manually.

This is mostly for convenience.


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