From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-04-19T17:54:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Delete a directory with all sub-directories an files


"Kristof Bastiaensen" <kristof@vleeuwen.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:4082752a$0$973$a0ced6e1@news.skynet.be...
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:53:48 +0200, Dirk Einecke wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I would like to delete a directory. In this directory are other
> > directories an files. So I have to delete this subdirectories an files
> > at first. Now I search a good solution to solve this problem. My first
> > idea was to look in the given directory and if there are
subdirectories
> > to look in this directories... Is this the right way? Is there a ready
> > function for this little problem? Or has anybody written a function
for
> > it?
> >
> > greetings
> > Dirk Einecke
>
> `rm -rf directory`
> :-)

Another one liner would be:

Dir[File.join(dir, '**', '*')].reverse.each {|f| (File.directory? ? Dir :
File).delete f}
:-)

Note: this one is portable also.

    robert