From: josh.guthrie+ruby@...
Date: 2015-06-24T15:44:13+00:00
Subject: [ruby-dev:49138] [Ruby trunk - Feature #11302] Dir.entries and Dir.foreach without [".", ".."]

Issue #11302 has been updated by Arnaud Rouyer.


Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Candidates for the methods or options?
> 
> I prefer a same option for both methods, but no concrete idea.

Dir.foreach and Dir.entries both support a second hash argument for options: as of 2.2.2, the docs only mention the :encoding key in the options hash.

Basing myself on the GNU ls util, I propose supporting an :ignore key in the optional hash argument.

We could have an API similar to this:

~~~
$ ls -a
.
..
.hidden_file
directory
file.bin

$ irb

irb:001> Dir.entries('.')
 => [".", "..", ".hidden_file", "directory", "file.bin"]
irb:002> Dir.entries('.', ignore: :almost_all)  # almost_all option name taken from GNU ls option name
 => [".hidden_file", "directory", "file.bin"]   # http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/ls.c#n4784
irb:003> Dir.entries('.', ignore: :directories)
=> [".hidden_file", "file.bin"]
irb:004> Dir.entries('.', ignore: :hidden)
=> ["directory", "file.bin"]

# Fancy proposal
irb:005> Dir.entries('.', ignore: /o/)
=> [".", "..", ".hidden_file", "file.bin"]
~~~




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Feature #11302: Dir.entries and Dir.foreach without [".", ".."]
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11302#change-53113

* Author: Yui NARUSE
* Status: Assigned
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Dir.entries returns an array of its content with "." and "..".
But as far as I met, almost all cases don't need them.

How about adding such new method or options?



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