From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-06-24T06:36:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir[] and Windows Network Addresses

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Takita [mailto:brian.takita@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:11 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Dir[] and Windows Network Addresses
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is is possible to get the contents of a Windows network 
> directory using Dir?
> 
> I would think it would be something like 
> Dir['\\\\Computer\\Dir\\*'] but nothing shows up.
> 
> Is there a way to access the a Windows network directory 
> without having to call exec 'dir \\\\Computer\\Dir' and 
> parsing the output?

Watch the single versus double quotes.  However, that's not the problem
anway.

Specifying the root makes it fail:

irb(main):019:0> Dir["*.*"]
=> ["AUTOEXEC.BAT", "boot.ini"] # Much snippage

irb(main):016:0> Dir["C:\\*.*"]
=> []

However, Dir.entries should do the trick in the meantime:

irb(main):017:0> Dir.entries("\\\\vadevweb\\public")
=> [".", "..", "Builds", "Devtools", "Projects", "vss"]

Looks like a bug in Dir.glob to me.

Regards,

Dan

PS - Find.find seems to handle UNC paths alright, too.