From: Andrew Wagner <wagner.andrew@...>
Date: 2010-08-24T00:02:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a file somewhere in a directory recursively

--0016364580e431d5ca048e7eee88
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

What about doing something like this:
result = %x[dir *.bat]

..and doing some basic parsing on the results?

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:

> Assume I have a file pattern
>  temp*.bat
>
> Assume I have a directory d:\XXX
>
> and that I want to find all instances using Windows' file matching
> mechanisms rather than than Ruby regular expressions or the functionality of
> fnmatch.
>
> In other words ... it _has_ to be the Windows file matching method exactly.
>
>
> I see that FileUtils has a bunch of functionality but what I want is
> something like
>
>  X_FileUtils.dir("MyDir").pattern("*.bat") { |file| puts file }
>
>
> Is there a gem "out there" to do what I want?
>
> Ralph

--0016364580e431d5ca048e7eee88--