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How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a particular
directory, but _any_ directory?

I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #=== method
returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But #exclude tries to
turn its argument into a string and build up a regex.

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vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407

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On Jul 31, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

>
> How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a particular
> directory, but _any_ directory?
>
> I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #=== method
> returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But #exclude tries to
> turn its argument into a string and build up a regex.
>
> --
> vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
>

require 'find'

file_list = []
start_path = "/path/to/directory/" <= the dir to start recursing
from.

Find.find(start_path) do |file|
file_list << path unless test(?d, file)
end

p file_list

This works unless I misunderstand what you are trying to do. See
$ ri test for more info.
HTH-
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a particular
> directory, but _any_ directory?
>
> I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #=== method
> returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But #exclude tries to
> turn its argument into a string and build up a regex.
>
> --
> vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407

list = []
Dir.glob( "*" ){ |f|
list << f unless File.directory?(f)
}
p list

On Monday 01 August 2005 05:39, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> > How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a
> > particular directory, but _any_ directory?
> >
> > I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #===
> > method returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But
> > #exclude tries to turn its argument into a string and build up a
> > regex.
> >
> > --
> > vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
>
> require 'find'
>
> file_list = []
> start_path = "/path/to/directory/" <= the dir to start recursing
> from.
>
> Find.find(start_path) do |file|
> file_list << path unless test(?d, file)
> end
>
> p file_list
>
> This works unless I misunderstand what you are trying to do.

Sorry if this sounds like bad advertisement, but with Rant
the same looks like:

file_list = sys["/path/to/directory/**/*"].no_dir

Perhaps someone wants to integrate it into Rake.

HTH,
Stefan