From: Jonathan Leighton <lists@...>
Date: 2006-03-11T07:51:08+09:00
Subject: Re: An Array of grep Results?

On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 07:32 +0900, Nathan Olberding wrote:
> I want to search all the files in a directory for a string and save the 
> results in an Array. So far, the best solution I can come up with is 
> using system("grep ... > resultsFile"), then opening resultsFile and 
> doing readlines(). There's a better way, isn't there?

Yep: Dir["/some/foo/directory/*"] ;)

See the docs for Dir#glob

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