From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-05-04T17:53:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Cross platform `ls -t`

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 09:33:18AM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:
> Still, I don't get why you're doing 
> Dir["**"] 
> instead of 
> Dir["*"]
> 
> someone would explain me this ?

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_dir.html

   ** Matches subdirectories recursively
   * Matches zero or more characters
   ? Matches any single character
   [ charSet ] Matches any character from the given set of characters. A
   range of characters is written as charFrom - charTo. The set may be
   negated with an initial uparrow (^).
   { opt, opt, ... } Matches any one of the optional strings

Regards,

Brian.