From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-02-01T00:46:13+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby, would like a style critique - filedup.rb [0/1]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Douglas Hunter wrote:

> ILikeFood wrote:
> > I've just written my first Ruby application (all 135 lines of it) and
> > being totally book educated, I would love for a more accomplished Ruby
> > programmer just to look over and critique my work.
>
>
> One of the reasons to follow Guy's advice and use "find.rb" is that it
> wont recursively follow symlinks that point to a directory above.  Your
> code bails with "filedup.rb:62:in `open': Too many open files - "."
> (Errno::EMFILE)" when given that test, while the find.rb code is not so
> brittle.

personally i prefer

  found = Dir['**/*']

over

  found = [] and Find.find ('.'){|e| found << e}

it seems to work fine, following symlinks, recursing, etc.  any drawbacks to
this?

assume you actually want a copy of found, rather tahn simply traversing the
tree with a block.

-a

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