From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-07-16T18:53:27+09:00
Subject: Re: possible DIR["**"] anomaly

Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote:
<snip>
> Make me wonder if anybody had proposed to use the operator / for joining
> files component.
> A recent addition to Python is a class that inherit string but with all
> the facilities for paths (i.e. globbing, listing, joining, ...) and I
> must say it is very convenient. The previous two lines could be written
> something like:
> 
> librbfiles = Path.new("**")/"lib"/"**"/"*.rb"
> librbfiles.glob
> 
> I think I will write it and post it here so that you may have a feeling
> for what it can (or cannot) do.

Like this?

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/pathname/rdoc/classes/Pathname.html

-- 
Alex