From: Thomas Sondergaard <ts_news1@...>
Date: 2005-04-03T19:14:42+09:00
Subject: Re: File.fnmatch and **

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 1 Apr 2005 18:54:44 +0900,
> Thomas Sondergaard wrote in [ruby-talk:136264]:
> 
>>Dir.glob('**/*') matches directories recursively, but 
>>File.fnmatch('**/*', "a/b/c", File::FNM_PATHNAME) returns false. I 
>>thought (from reading the docs at ruby-doc.org) that the patterns are 
>>supposed to be the same.
> 
> 
>   $ ruby18 -v -e 'p File.fnmatch("**/*", "a/b/c")'
>   ruby 1.8.2 (2005-03-31) [i686-linux]
>   true
> 

Yes, well the following returns true as well, which is not desirable. I 
need to pass the File::FNM_PATHNAME for fnmatch to treat the string as a 
path and not a file name.

[ts@argon qtruby-1.0.8]$ ruby -v -e 'p File.fnmatch("*", "a/b/c")'
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i686-linux]
true

I just wonder why only Dir.glob understands the ** pattern.

Thomas