From: Hung Dao <mephis1987@...>
Date: 2006-11-30T19:54:38+09:00
Subject: Re: help re deleting files please?

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This smells like a homework , by the way , the best approach to Ruby is
practice by coding yourself then post the code for others to check or
optimize
Hope this piece of code helps you somehow
Dir.foreach("./") {|x| File.delete(x)  if (File.size(x) <7*1024)&&(File.size(x)
>5*1024) }

On 11/29/06, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a small task which I was considering using ruby for - if anyone has
> a
> minute and could quickly type in the ruby code (assuming its a few lines)
> that would be fantastic. The spec is:
>
> Input
>
>   - Small ruby program needs to be triggered by a windows batch file (
>   i.e. called out from within a windows batch file)
>   - The batch file will be provided (from the program that kicks it off)
>   with a variable containing a filename
>
> Processing
>
>   - Take the filename as input
>   - To search for files under a given directory (so in including
>   sub-directories) and delete any files which match the conditions:
>      - (size < 7kb) AND (size > 5kb)
>      - file is closed (i.e. don't want to pick up a file currently
>      being written to by the program which may be just starting to grow)
>      - Optionally (not sure yet) - May want to limit the files to
>      those which match a wildcard version of the filename which was
>      provided by the batch file (e.g. if filename was "
>      thisfile-v22.mpg", may want to filter on only files matching "
>      thisfile*" if that makes sense.
>
> Output
>
>   - No real output required, however if it was simple a log file which
>   was appended to with Date/Time, FileDeleted may be nice
>
>
> Thanks in advance
> Greg
>
>

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