# Buscar todos los .pdf que hayan en un directorio dado **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 17, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/buscar-todos-los-pdf-que-hayan-en-un-directorio-dado/188710 "2010-05-17T01:12:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deadlykyo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@deadlykyo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/deadlykyo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/buscar-todos-los-pdf-que-hayan-en-un-directorio-dado/188710/1 "2010-05-17T01:12:17Z")
Hello all, please I need help with this, I need to search for .pdf all who are in a given directory. I explain: I’m doing a project in Ruby on which the user must enter any directory in Windows (ex C: /) and I have in my Ruby program into that directory and find all files with extension .pdf , please I would greatly appreciate any ideas. ---
**Author:** ![deadlykyo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@deadlykyo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/deadlykyo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/buscar-todos-los-pdf-que-hayan-en-un-directorio-dado/188710/2 "2010-05-17T01:18:26Z")
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Mauricio G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hello all, please I need help with this, I need to search for .pdf all > who are in a given directory. I explain: I’m doing a project in Ruby on > which the user must enter any directory in Windows (ex C: /) and I have > in my Ruby program into that directory and find all files with extension > .pdf , please I would greatly appreciate any ideas. If you just need to search in the given directory, there are a number of methods on Dir that could help you. If you want to search recursively, look into Find. ri Dir ri Find Ben