From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2012-08-25T18:51:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing unix filenames from STDIN

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:57 AM, David Jacobs <david@wit.io> wrote:
> How can I parse filenames read from STDIN via the standard Unix parsing rules (without duplicating said rules)? All of the following would be parsed as coherent file names:
>
> file.txt
> my\ file.txt
> "my file.txt"
>
> A nice addition would be that *.txt would use Bash expansion to find the appropriate files.

Use Shellwords to handle shell escaped strings and Dir[] to expand wildcards:

require 'shellwords'
while line = STDIN.gets
  filename = Shellwords.shellwords(line).join('')
  p filename
  # expand wildcards
  p Dir[filename]
end

Regards,
Sean