From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-04-03T03:17:15+09:00
Subject: Re: folder delete script

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Gus Hoppes wrote:

> Hi. I am a rubyn00b. I need help. I'm trying to write a script that will
> delete specific sub folders in a particular folder. I would like to delete
> all folders that begin with lets say the letter "T" that are two weeks old.
> It would probably work like the deltree command in dos (deltree T*.* /s).
> How would I write that in ruby? Is it also possible to use wildcards in
> ruby? If so how? Any help would be greatly appreciated. TY!
>

harp:~ > cat a.rb
require 'fileutils'

pattern = 'T*.*'

Dir.glob('**/**') do |entry|
   next unless test ?d, entry
   FileUtils.rm_rf entry if File.fnmatch pattern, entry
end


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