From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T01:48:52+09:00
Subject: Re: dots in Dir.entries

Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> ...
> I will admit that in 99.8% of the scripts that I've written,
> I have to filter out those two directories.  But for the
> other 0.2%, I can't just blindly add them.  The 'ls' command
> has both 'ls -a' and 'ls -A', where the only difference is
> whether those two are included in the listing.  It might
> make sense for ruby to have both Dir.entries and some other
> method -- except that I can't decide on a good name for that
> other method...   :-)  Dir.entries_all ?
> 

Either that, or let people use `ls -a` -- yes, if they need what
the actual OS provides, that is always an alternative. :-)
Perhaps a Struct containing the actual output from such a command
would be useful, like Etc does?

Guy N. Hurst