From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-23T19:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting a directory tree

Hi --

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Bruce Williams wrote:

> Hal,
>
> The following is a performance test (using profile.rb and Linux' 'time') of...
>
> My implementation:
>
> --snip--
> require 'profile'
> def getdirs root
> 	Dir["#{root}/**/*"].select{ |file| test ?d, file and not test ?l, file  }
> end
> getdirs '/home/iusris/devel'
> --snip--
>
> which uses the recursive ** Dir glob (of Zsh fame).

The problem with that is it doesn't include anything whose name begins
with a dot (at least on *nix).  So the results are very different from
what you get with Dir.entries.


David

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