From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-09-23T20:07:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting a directory tree

Hi,

At Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:35:08 +0900,
dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> > --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.

Dir["#{root}/**/{.[^.],..?,}*/"].select {|file| not test ?l, file}

-- 
Nobu Nakada