From: Jim Weirich <lists@...>
Date: 2012-08-24T11:59:38+09:00
Subject: Re: deleting directories matching a pattern

Thomas Luedeke wrote in post #1073026:
> [...] How the heck do I delete the middle two directories, once I have strings
> set as:
>
> job1 = 97504
> job2 = 98537
>
> This is embarrassing....

Would something like this work for you:

require 'fileutils'
job = ARGV.shift.to_i

dir_pattern = "Eb%05d.*" % job
Dir[dir_pattern].each do |dir_name|
  puts "Deleting #{dir_name}"
  FileUtils.rm_r dir_name
end

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