From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2008-04-25T23:38:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Find.prune if ( filename[-5,5] != ".java") is odd?

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Martin Elzen <martinelzen@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi all.
>
>  Today I had to do a recursive touch on all Java files in a certain directory.  Since I recently found that super cool ruby Find example I figured I'd use that.  However, my first try at a solution didn't work.  In the end I just changed the script a bit and now it does work as intended, but...  I really don't understand why the first version of the example didn't work...  It's the Ruby 1.8.6 1-click-installer version, if that matters.
>
>
>  require "find"
>
>
>  Find.find( "c:/usd70.senior.2008.04.14.copy" ) do |filename|
>   Find.prune if filename == "."
>   Find.prune if (filename.size < 6) # shortest interesting filename == "a.java"
>
>   # first try, if I don't comment-out the following line it just does not work as intended...
>   #Find.prune if ( filename[-5,5] != ".java") # string doesn't end with ".java" ?
>   #`touch #{filename}`
>
>
>   `touch #{filename}` if filename[-5,5] == ".java"
>
>  end
>
>

What about:

Dir["c:/usd70.senior.2008.04.14.copy/**/*.java"].each { |f| `touch #{f}` }

Jason