From: "H.Yamamoto" <ocean@...2.ccsnet.ne.jp>
Date: 2005-04-04T00:19:59+09:00
Subject: Re: File.fnmatch and **

Hi.

Thomas Sondergaard <ts_news1@sondergaard.cc> wrote:
(2005/04/01 18:54)

>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.
>
>Can I match directories recursively with File.fnmatch?

Well, File.fnmatch on ruby1.9 works like that.

irb(main):002:0> File.fnmatch('**/*', 'a/b/c', File::FNM_PATHNAME)
=> true
irb(main):003:0> File.fnmatch('a**/*', 'a/b/c', File::FNM_PATHNAME)
=> false
irb(main):004:0> File.fnmatch('**/b*', 'a/b/c', File::FNM_PATHNAME)
=> false
irb(main):005:0> File.fnmatch('**/*', '/a/b/c', File::FNM_PATHNAME)
=> true
irb(main):006:0> File.fnmatch('**/*', 'c:/a/b/c', File::FNM_PATHNAME)
=> true

Does this fit your need?