From: Gunther Diemant <g.diemant@...>
Date: 2011-09-16T15:49:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Some newbie questions

> 3. Is there any difference using Dir.entries "the directory"
> compared to using
> Dir.glob "*" if you use them on the same directory?

Yes. Dir.glob '*' will not return Unix-style hidden files (files that
start with a dot).

Example:
sampledir
 |-- .
 |-- ..
 |-- foo.txt
 |-- .bar.txt

Dir.glob("*") #=> ['foo.txt'] #if Dir.pwd = sampledir
Dir.entries('sampledir') #=> ['.', '..', 'foo.txt', '.bar.txt']