From: Wayne Magor <wemagor2@...>
Date: 2008-01-09T06:55:02+09:00
Subject: Shell glob functionality missing?

If you call a Ruby script with a parameter such as:

  c:\my source\*\*.c

Ruby will give an array in ARGV that contains all the c files in all
the directories.  It will also turn the backslashes into forward
slashes.  There doesn't seem to be a method in Ruby that does this
same thing.  The Dir.glob and Dir.entries methods don't work this way.

Am I missing something, or is there no easy built-in method for doing
this in Ruby?  Doesn't it seem like it should be there?  I would think
this would be a common thing for scripting.