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find . -type f in ruby

I want to grab a list of all the files under a particular directory. Dir.glob works great, but there doesn't seem to be a way to limit results to just files (excluding directories).

Heres's what I have right now:

files = Dir.glob('my_dir/**/*').reject { |f| File.directory?(f) }

Is there a more elegant way to accomplish this?

Solution

  • That's actually a fairly efficient way to go about doing it, but you might also use the Find module:

    require 'find'

found = [ ]

Find.find(base_path) do |path|
  found << path if (File.file?(path))
end