From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-03-18T04:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: irb as a shell

Hi,

At Tue, 18 Mar 2003 04:22:45 +0900,
Mark Wilson wrote:
> system("ls *gz > list")
> a=File.open("list","r")
> b=a.readlines

b = Dir["*gz"]

> b.each { |f| system("rm -rf #{f}") }

require 'ftools'
File.rm_f(*b)

> b.each { |f| system("gtar -zxf #{f}") }

Although this isn't concerned with Ruby, you don't need loop:

$ zcat *gz | gtar -xif -

-- 
Nobu Nakada