Script to walk a directory tree

[Kyle Heon]

Can anyone point me in the direction of how to walk a directory tree
recursively?

I'm not having much luck finding code samples via Google.

Thanks.

Kyle Heon
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[Timothy Hunter]

Can anyone point me in the direction of how to walk a directory tree
recursively?

I'm not having much luck finding code samples via Google.

Thanks.

Kyle Heon
(e-mail address removed)

Check out 'find' in the standard library.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/find/rdoc/

 

[Kirk Haines]

Can anyone point me in the direction of how to walk a directory tree
recursively?

I'm not having much luck finding code samples via Google.

def file_search(dirpath, file_regex)
r = []
Dir.foreach(dirpath) do |filename|
next if filename == '.' or filename == '..'
fullname = "#{dirpath}/#{filename}"
if FileTest.directory? fullname
r.concat(file_search(fullname))
elsif file_regex.match(filename)
r.push fullname
end
end
r
end

That's quick and dirty, but should give you a starting place to develop what
you want. Pass into file_search a starting path (with a trailing '/'), and a
regex that will match what you are looking for. You'll get back and array
with everything that was found to match.


Kirk Haines

 

[Eric Hodel]

Can anyone point me in the direction of how to walk a directory tree
recursively?

I'm not having much luck finding code samples via Google.

require 'find'

Find.find('/your/path') do |f|
# if you want to skip all dirs
next if File.directory? f
puts "at: #{f}"
end

 

[Kirk Haines]

require 'find'

Find.find('/your/path') do |f|
# if you want to skip all dirs
next if File.directory? f
puts "at: #{f}"
end

Much better than implementing it manually, but the fun thing about manually is
that it's not that much longer. Love Ruby.


Kirk Haines

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

Much better than implementing it manually, but the fun thing about manually is
that it's not that much longer. Love Ruby.

it gets alot longer if you handle links, devices, potential infinite recursion
due to directory links, and the fs changing underneath you causing errors to
be thrown as often happens in the case of gigantic or nfs fs's... speaking
from too much bad experience ;-)

btw. the find2 module on c.l.r offers a find that follows links - something
the built-in find does not do if this is important for the OP.

cheers.

-a
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[nobuyoshi nakada]

Hi,

At Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:22:34 +0900,
Kyle Heon wrote in [ruby-talk:149485]:

Can anyone point me in the direction of how to walk a directory tree
recursively?

Dir.glob("**/*") do |fn|
# ...
end