From: Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@...>
Date: 2006-12-01T07:01:43+09:00
Subject: Re: help re deleting files please?

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wow - one line - thanks heaps - gives me some pointers re where to dive into
the API doco/classes - take your points
thanks

On 11/30/06, Hung Dao <mephis1987@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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