Single-character wildcards : Dir « File Directory « Ruby






  1. Ruby
  2. File Directory
  3. Dir

Single-character wildcards

Dir["mydir/?ub*"]     # => ["mydir/ruby_script.rb", "mydir/subdirectory"]
Dir["mydir/.*"]       # => ["mydir/.", "mydir/..", "mydir/.hidden_file"]








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1.more concise way of getting directory listings is by using Dir's class array method
2.a little more platform independent:
3.Find all the "regular" files and subdirectories in mydir.
4.Find all the .rb files in mydir
5.Dir["mydir/**/*"]
6.Dir["mydir/**/*file*"]
7.Regex-style character classes
8.Match any of the given strings
9.Dir with patterns