From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-06-08T21:47:22+09:00
Subject: Re: glob but not fnmatch?

2006/6/8, transfire@gmail.com <transfire@gmail.com>:
> Can't imagine this is right (Linux, Ruby 1.8.4)
>
>   Dir.glob('lib/**/*')  #=> [ 'lib/facets.rb' ]
>
>   File.fnmatch?('lib/**/*', 'lib/facets.rb')  #=> false
>
> In the mean time, anyone got a working Ruby-coded #fnmatch? I can use?

As far as I can see File.fnmatch does not support directory path
matching with "**":
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html#M000012

So although this may seem inconvenient / asymmetric behavior conforms
at least to the docs.

robert

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