From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-08-29T14:17:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How to read files in all subdirectories?

> Ruby experts:
>
> I know how to read each file in a subdirectory using the code below. My
> question is: How can this code be modified so that the code will, in
> addition, read each file in all subdirectories below "some_directory"?
>
> (I think what I want is a way to read all subdirectories "recursively".)

Use the Find module, as per the following example.

# Recurse into directories given on the command-line, printing the name of
# each file, ignoring CVS directories, and adding / to directories.
require "find"
dirs = ARGV || ["."]
Find.find(*dirs) do |path|
  Find.prune if File.basename(path) == "CVS"
  print path
  print "/" if File.stat(path).directory?
  print "\n"
end

> Thanks in advance!
>
> Kurt Euler
>

Gavin