From: Stefan Lang <perfectly.normal.hacker@...>
Date: 2008-12-19T05:18:03+09:00
Subject: Re: mtime - search directory for modified time

2008/12/18 Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@yahoo.com>:
> I am trying to extract an exact filename so that I can use mtime method.
> It appears to be needing an exact filename and maybe I am getting other
> artifacts when iterating through this directory. Would you know how to
> fix? Please help me with this. Thanks. MC
>
> require "fileutils"
> require 'find'
> require 'ftools'

You aren't using anything from the above three libraries,
so you can remove the requires.

> Dir.entries("C:/New").each do |filename|

filename is a plain filename without directory part.
That's why it's not found.

>  if File.extname(filename) == ".txt" then
>  filename.to_s
>  puts File.mtime(filename) #<--gets error 'No such file or directory'
> ENOENT
>  puts File.mtime("C:/New/2343434.txt")#<--works by outputting modified
> time
>  end
> end

This would be a simpler way:

    Dir["C:/New/*.txt"].each { |path|
      puts File.mtime(path)
    }

Stefan