From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-08-10T17:19:40+09:00
Subject: Re: standard IO directory surf

2007/8/9, Jon Hawkins <globyy3000@hotmail.com>:
> how would i go about surfing a whole directory instead of using a
> Dir.glob(*/**)
> Basically how would i do it using the Find method. I need to surf the
> entire file system and pull up my total number of files that arnt an
> actual directory.

non_directory_count = Integer `find / -not -type d | wc -l`

Of course, the command in backticks also works on a shell prompt - if
you just need that count.  (btw, I used Integer to detect situations
where the command does not work and return an improper result (i.e. an
empty string).

Kind regards

robert