From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2001-11-21T02:52:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25924] Re: Checking if a file exists...

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Ben Schumacher wrote:

> I was wondering if somebody had an easy way of checking if a file exists on
> a filesystem without using begin/rescue. I might be making this too
> complicated on myself, but I can't seem to find any other way. I was hopign
> there was something like a "File.exists" or similar.

File.exists? maybe?

irb(main):001:0> File.exists?('/vmlinuz')
false
irb(main):002:0> File.exists?('/boot/vmlinuz')
true

Hope this helps,

Mike

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