From: Charles Roper <reachme@...>
Date: 2010-11-26T22:20:03+09:00
Subject: Re: system() or process.create?

On 25 November 2010 09:45, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Fengfeng Li <lifengfeng@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your help, both 'cmd.exe /c del *.zip' and FileUtils.rm
>> Dir.glob('*.zip') can solve my problem^^
>
> Personally, I'd go with FileUtils.rm( Dir.glob('*.zip') ), just
> because it is more portable, and doesn't incur the cost (negligible,
> but still :P) of spinning off a new process. Additionally, I have to
> deal only with Ruby's idiosyncrasies. No need to pile cmd.exe's
> baggage on top of that. ;)

Yes, I'd definitely go with that.

Charles