Loop through files in a directory

Ruby
1

I know this is a nub question, but the documentation on ruby is
terrible.

How do I loop through all of the files in a directory?

Thanks for your help.

2

On 5/4/07, Ben J. [email protected] wrote:

I know this is a nub question, but the documentation on ruby is
terrible.

How do I loop through all of the files in a directory?

Thanks for your help.

–
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Have a look at Find.find and Dir.each.

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On Sat, 5 May 2007, Ben J. wrote:

I know this is a nub question, but the documentation on ruby is
terrible.

How do I loop through all of the files in a directory?

Thanks for your help.

–
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

harp:~ > ls dir
a b c

harp:~ > cat a.rb
class Dir
def self.ls dir, glob = File.join(‘', '’), &block
ret = [] unless block
Dir.glob(File.join(dir, glob)) do |entry|
block ? block.call(entry) : ret.push(entry)
end
ret
end
end

Dir.ls ‘dir’ do |entry|
puts entry
end

entries = Dir.ls ‘dir’
p entries

harp:~ > ruby a.rb
dir/a
dir/b
dir/c
[“dir/a”, “dir/b”, “dir/c”]

-a

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def GetRecursiveFileList ( dirname )
results = Array.new
# both methods should work the same (I think one returns the
directory
names in addition to the files)
use_method = 0
if use_method == 0
Dir["#{dirname}//"].each do | thisfile |
thisfile.gsub! ( /// , ‘\’ )
results.push ( thisfile )
end
else
require ‘find’
Find.find ( dirname ) do | thisfile |
thisfile.gsub! ( /// , ‘\’ )
results.push ( thisfile )
end
end
return results
end