From: Kurt Euler <keuler@...>
Date: 2002-12-29T15:21:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Basic file deleting question...

Eric-

Thanks, but could you elaborate? How would you rewrite your line:

  File.delete(*Dir["*"])

to specify deleting all files in the directory "output".

Thanks!

-Kurt

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Hodel [mailto:drbrain@segment7.net]
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 10:14 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Basic file deleting question...


Kurt Euler (keuler@portal.com) wrote:

> All-
> 
> What Ruby command will delete all files within a directory. (I'm using Ruby on Windows.)
> 
> I'm trying to delete all files within the directory "output", which is itself in the current directory.
> 
> I've tried various lines looking like this:
> 
>    File.delete("./output/*")
> 
> But I keep getting "Invalid arguement" or "permission denied" errors.

[22:10] drbrain@asx:~/ruby/tmp$ touch one two
[22:10] drbrain@asx:~/ruby/tmp$ ls
one     two
[22:10] drbrain@asx:~/ruby/tmp$ ruby -e 'File.delete("one", "two")'
[22:10] drbrain@asx:~/ruby/tmp$ ls
[22:11] drbrain@asx:~/ruby/tmp$ touch one two
[22:10] drbrain@asx:~/ruby/tmp$ ls
one     two
[22:11] drbrain@asx:~/ruby/tmp$ ruby -e 'File.delete(*Dir["*"])'
[22:12] drbrain@asx:~/ruby/tmp$ ls
[22:12] drbrain@asx:~/ruby/tmp$


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