From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2009-07-21T08:00:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.entries showing . and .. , how come?

On Jul 20, 2009, at 6:48 PM, 7stud -- wrote:
> Alex wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:19 PM, David Masover<ninja@slaphack.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I'd do this:I
>>>
>>> Of course, this might still not do what you want -- it's going to  
>>> include
>>> folders, too. If you just want files, you could do something like  
>>> this:
>>>
>>> Dir.entries(myfolder).each do |filename|
>>> �puts filename if File.file?(filename)
>>> end
>>
>> I would just do something like this:
>>
>> Dir.entries(dir).reject{|entry| entry =~ /^\.{1,2}$/}
>
> On unix, Dir.glob doesn't return hidden files(like Dir.entries does):
> dirname = "whatever"
>
> Dir.glob("#{dirname}/*").each do |fname|
>  puts fname
> end
> -- 

Unless you want it to:
   Dir.glob("*")                       #=> ["config.h", "main.rb"]
   Dir.glob("*", File::FNM_DOTMATCH)   #=> [".", "..", "config.h",  
"main.rb"]

-Rob

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