From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-06-26T00:59:52+09:00
Subject: Re: rm -rf

Hi,

At Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:34:40 +0900,
Bil Kleb wrote:
> > I'm curious, rm -rf will just as well work for a GNU/Linux box, so I guess
> > you don't simply want to execute this as a shell command from your Ruby
> > script with `rm -rf <dir>`?
> 
> Right, for some reason I'm against using system or back ticks today.

dirs = []
Dir.glob("#{path}/**/{.[^.],..?,}*") do |f|
  if File.directory?(f)
    dirs << f
  else
    File.unlink(f)
  end
end
dirs.reverse_each(&Dir.method(:rmdir))

-- 
Nobu Nakada