From: Jason Creighton <androflux@...>
Date: 2003-08-25T09:23:28+09:00
Subject: Re: trailing slash issue in Find.find

On 23 Aug 2003 16:30:02 -0700
quixoticsycophant@yahoo.com (Jeff Mitchell) wrote:

> require "find"
> Find.find("/usr/bin/") { |file| puts file }
> 
> [...]
> /usr/bin//rmdir
> /usr/bin//rm
> /usr/bin//mv
> /usr/bin//mknod
> /usr/bin//mkfifo
> /usr/bin//mkdir
> /usr/bin//ls
> /usr/bin//ln
> /usr/bin//install
> /usr/bin//du
> /usr/bin//dircolors
> /usr/bin//dir
> /usr/bin//df
> /usr/bin//dd
> /usr/bin//cp
> [...]
> 
> I ran into this while doing string compares between filenames obtained
> from File.find and filenames obtained elsewhere.  Needless to say they
> didn't compare very well :)
> 
> FWIW, GNU's find, BSD's find, and perl's find all produce the same output
> for "/usr/bin" and "/usr/bin/".

~$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i686-linux]
~$ ruby -rfind -e 'Find.find("/usr/bin/") { |f| puts f }' 2>&1 | head -n 10
/usr/bin/
/usr/bin/db_load
/usr/bin/db_dump
/usr/bin/xscreensaver-demo
/usr/bin/prtwash
/usr/bin/ssh-keygen
/usr/bin/prt-get
/usr/bin/bunzip2
/usr/bin/lwp-rget
/usr/bin/afmtodit
~$

So it appears to be fixed in 1.8

Jason Creighton