From: Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@...>
Date: 2008-12-17T05:07:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Walk through directory structure, look at first file, rename dir in consequence.

Einar Magn�s Boson wrote:
>
> You only want the first file in every directory and every sub- 
> directory? is that it?
>
> With this setup:
> /dir1/file1
> /dir1/dir11/file1
> /dir1/dir11/file2
> /dir1/dir12/file1
> /dir1/dir12/file2
>
> you only want /dir1/file1, /dir1/dir11/file1 and dir1/dir12/file1, is  
> that correct?
>
> I guess you could do something like this:
>
> def getFilesInDirectory(dir)
>    dirs = []
>    files = []
>    Dir[File.join(dir, "*")].each do |f|
>      if File.directory?(f) then
>        dirs << f
>      elsif files.empty?
>        files = [f]
>      end
>    end
>    dirs.each do |dir|
>      files += getFilesInDirectory(dir)
>    end
>    files
> end
>
>
> einarmagnus
>   

That does exactly what I need! What a cool solution.. Thank you!

--Aldric