From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-08-24T16:10:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a file somewhere in a directory recursively

2010/8/23 Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com>:
> Robert,
>
> Monday, August 23, 2010, 9:25:56 AM, you wrote:
>
> RK> For the pattern above you only need
>
> RK> batches = Dir['MyDir/*.bat']
>
> RK> or if you want to get fancy:
>
> RK> batches = Dir[File.join('MyDir', '*.bat')]
>
> RK> For the fully recursive version you can do
>
> RK> batches = Dir['MyDir/**/*.bat']
>
> RK> and be done.  No Gems required.  You can even do
>
> RK> batches = Dir['MyDir/**/*.{bat,cmd}']
>
> RK> and really get all Windows batch files.
>
> Is the stuff, above, some sort of 1.9 syntax?  Do you really mean square brackets?

No.  Yes.

> On 1.8 ... I cannot get anything you wrote, about, to work.

Please show your IRB session / code and the errors you got.

Kind regards

robert

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