From: Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Date: 2002-11-13T06:55:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [FAQ]  was RE: How do I get a '\'?

please also post it on the faqtotum.
http://www.rubygarden.org/iowa/faqtotum

thx,
	-A.
> Gavin Sinclair requested that I sent this.  I hope it makes sense, is
> true, and is of use.
>
> Q: I'm working with files and directories on Windows.  How do I get a
> '\' (the file separator)?
>     Whatever I try irb or 'p' shows me '\\'.
> A: '\\' really does produce '\' when your code is run.  Both p and irb
> use 'inspect', which returns
>  a "displayable" representation of a string that can be re-evalled back
> into ruby. [Simon Cozens]
>     Austin Ziegler notes that you can get away with using forward
> slashes ('/') if you're only using Ruby file operations; only when
> you're doing Windows-based file operations do you need to do:
>
> 	foo.gsub('/', '\\')
>
> A (pointless) example:
> 	Dir.entries("C:ruby/bin")
> 	or
> 	Dir.entries("C:/ruby/bin")
> works under Windows, but if you wanted to use the Windows command 'DIR'
> you would have to write
> 	`Dir C:ruby\\bin`
>
> While I've been typing, another possible FAQ entry occurs to me:
>
> Q: How do I get a recursive list of all the files under a directory and
> its subdirectories?  Dir.entries only gets me the files in the specified
> directory.  Why isn't there a recursive version?
> A: 'find' will probably do what you want.  The code below fills 'dirs'
> with directories and 'files' with filenames for a given directory
>
> 	require 'find'
> 	dirs = []
> 	files = []
> 	Find.find(directory) {|f|
> 		if FileTest.directory?(f)
> 			dirs.push(f)
> 		else
> 			files.push(f)
> 		end
> 	}
>
> Please add to/edit/make corrections if needed.
>
> All the best,
>
> Jon
>
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