From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-08-24T17:43:36+09:00
Subject: Re: deleting directories matching a pattern

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Jim Weirich <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> 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

I offer

require 'fileutils'

FileUtils.rm_r Dir[*ARGV.map {|job| "base/Eb#{job}.*"}]

Kind regards

robert

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