From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2003-04-01T09:24:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Obtaining the Archive Attribute of a File on Windows Systems



> >>>
> >>> Is it possible to check the archive attribute of Windows
> >>> files using Ruby? Or, even better, is it possible to get a 
> >>> list of files that have active archive bits to then be able 
> >>> to copy or move to a backup location?
> 
> > You can do it using brute force:
> 
> > require 'find'
> 
> > Find.find( 'c:\temp' ) do | aFile |
> >   if  `attrib #{aFile}` =~ /^A/ 
> >     puts aFile
> >   end
> > end
> 
> > But it will (as far as I can see) not work on cygwin builds.
> 
> The command works in a Cygwin window.

and also on builds _without_ cygwin :-)
I'm using prag build on windows..

:botp