From: "Paul E.C. Melis" <paul@...>
Date: 2002-06-26T19:33:55+09:00
Subject: Re: rm -rf

It is kind of weird that there is a Dir.delete method that throws an
exception when the dir isn't empty, but that there isn't a Dir method that
allows you to delete one that isn't. Isn't that overly cautious?

Paul

<nobu.nokada@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:200206251559.g5PFxmp05227@sharui.nakada.kanuma.tochigi.jp...
> 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
>