From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-02-14T14:37:02+09:00
Subject: Re: file size of each item in file list

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Sloan Ruby <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I am trying to take the contents of a file which contains the results of
> a file size search and print those out with ruby.  To obtain the file
> size of each line in that file.
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>
> f = File.open("/tmp/lg_files")
> contentsArray=[]  # start with an empty array
>    f.each_line {|line|
>    a = contentsArray.push line
>    #b = File.size(a)
>    puts a
> }
>
>
> This results in each line in the file /tmp/lg_files printing.

Is this just an partial step to doing something else? Because to do
what you originally posted, all that's required is something like
this:

IO.readlines("/tmp/lg_files").each{|l| l.chomp!; puts "#{l} #{File.size(l)}" }