From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-03-22T23:55:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory

2010/3/21 Jonathan Nielsen <jonathan@jmnet.us>:
>> arr = Dir.open("K:/test").entries
>> arr.each do |file|
>>  File.open(file) do |fd|
>>    # do whatever you need with the file
>>  end
>> end
>>
>
> Wow, I typoed that bad, but I hope you get the idea.  (corrected above.)

If it is only for output purposes, we can actually do it in one line:

puts Dir["K:/test/*"].map {|f| File.read f}

Note: this is not necessarily efficient nor safe (just think of 3GB files...).

Kind regards

robert

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