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Do a global file search

Is there any way in Ruby where I can do a global search for a given file?

I tried Dir.glob but it searches in the current directory. And for the Find module I need to pass a list of directories to search. In my case, I need to search for a particular file which might be in any directory.

How can I do this in Ruby?

Solution

  • Find recurses into subdirectories, so just start at the root path, it'll go everywhere:

    Find.find('/') do |path|
  # look for your filename
end