From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach)
Date: 2007-05-18T18:26:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Recursive directory listing

In message <464D6FED.8030701@exilregeringen.se>, Jesper writes:
>I read somewhere (online, not in the Pickaxe which is out of reach at 
>the moment), that "**/*.mp3" would search through all levels, looking 
>for *.mp3 files... but that doesn't seem to be the case. My (pig-ugly) 
>code at the moment looks something like:

It seems to me that this might be a feature of some *shells*, but
I've never seen it in Ruby.

>It gets very  bloated when I want to find many different extensions many 
>(all) levels down, surely there is some better way to do this? Any hints 
>of references would be appreciated.

You will almost certainly have to actually write the code to list, look
for directories, change to them, and recurse.

-s