From: walter@...
Date: 2004-03-18T01:17:23+09:00
Subject: ruby way to find free space on drive?

Hi Everyone,

Is there a "ruby way" to find the free space on a drive.  I checked 
the archives, but all I found was some talk of this 2 years ago, and 
the solution was to use the win32api.  I am using 1.8.1-11 prag-prog 
install for windows.

I know I can do  :
/\s([\d,]+) bytes free/m =~ `dir f:`
puts $1.split(',').join.to_i

and that does work, but there seems like there should be a better way 
that I am missing.  I can see myself needing to run this on a Unix 
box fairly soon as well.


Thanks,


Walt
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