From: Chris Hulan <chris.hulan@...>
Date: 2012-08-24T08:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: deleting directories matching a pattern

what code do you have so far?

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Thomas Luedeke <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I cannot believe I'm having trouble with this - it should be utterly
> trivial, but I just can't get Ruby to work correctly on this.
>
> I've got a directory with subdirectories that have names such as
> "Eb97503.120822", where 97503 is a job submission number, and 120822 is
> a time-date stamp.  So the directory contents might look like this:
>
> Eb97503.120622
> Eb97504.120622
> Eb98537.120722
> Eb99659.120822
>
> I want to pattern match the job submission number, and delete the
> directories.  I must have tried ten different ways of doing it using
> strings set with the job submission number, but I just can't get it to
> work.
>
> How the heck do I delete the middle two directories, once I have strings
> set as:
>
> job1 = 97504
> job2 = 98537
>
> This is embarrassing....
>
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