From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-02-19T19:43:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Removing files in directtories

John Maclean <info@jayeola.org> wrote:
> Almost there... I've included line 7 as I'd like to be able to remove
> files from a directory using code blocks. Commented it out for now
> until I can work out how it's done. Suggestions appreciated.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/ruby -w
> def back_up
>  backdir = ENV["HOME"] + "/foo/"
>  puts "about to backup some files and tar them into ~/foo"
>  puts "listing data in ~/foo"
>  Dir.foreach(backdir)   {|file_names|
> #      File.delete("#{backdir}" + file_names)
> puts File.directory?
> file_names }
> end
> back_up

I'm not sure what you want, but you might want to consider this:

printing:
ruby -r find -e 'Find.find( File.join( ENV["HOME"], "foo" ) ) {|f| puts f}'

deletion:
ruby -r fileutils -e 'FileUtils.rm_rf( File.join( ENV["HOME"], "foo" ) )'

Kind regards

    robert