[BUG?] Dir.glob and space in folders names

ruby-talk
1

Hello,

I’m using ruby1.6.8[1] and this Dir.glob fails:

oct@baillet:~/temp$ mkdir “foo bar"
oct@baillet:~/temp$ touch foo\ bar/test
oct@baillet:~/temp$ ruby -e “p Dir.glob(‘foo bar/’).inspect"
"[]"
oct@baillet:~/temp$ ruby -e "p Dir.glob('foo\ bar/’).inspect”
”[]"

I suppose this is not a real bug, so is there a workaround to make this
work ?

1: oct@baillet:~/temp$ ruby -v
ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i386-linux]

Thanks for you clues :slight_smile:

···

–
Pierre Baillet
Pour qu’il y ait le moins de mécontents possible,
il faut toujours taper sur les mêmes.
Devise Shadok

2

I'm using ruby1.6.8[1] and this Dir.glob fails:

it's corrected in 1.8

pigeon% /usr/bin/ruby -ve 'p Dir.glob("a b/*")'
ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i686-linux]

pigeon%

pigeon% ruby -ve 'p Dir.glob("a b/*")'
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-03-23) [i686-linux]
["a b/c"]
pigeon%

Guy Decoux

3

Guy,

thanks for your quick reply.

This bugs triggers a problem in PragDave rublog.

I wonder (sorry for my ignorance) if 1.8 is on the way to be packaged
(as 1.7 is in the debian and is supposed to be an unstable version) ?

I stumbled over Akira Yamada webpage[1] which describes two apt
sources[2] for debian, but they doesn’t seem to contain any ruby1.8 version.

Thanks for any hint :slight_smile:

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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003, ts wrote:

I’m using ruby1.6.8[1] and this Dir.glob fails:

it’s corrected in 1.8

pigeon% /usr/bin/ruby -ve ‘p Dir.glob(“a b/*”)’
ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i686-linux]

pigeon%

pigeon% ruby -ve ‘p Dir.glob(“a b/*”)’
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-03-23) [i686-linux]
[“a b/c”]
pigeon%

Guy Decoux

1: http://arika.org/ruby/
2: deb http://deb.ruby-lang.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.ruby-lang.org/debian project/experimental/

–
Pierre Baillet
If you want the answers, you better get ready for the fire
System of a Down

4

Ruby 1.8 hasn’t been finalised yet. You can download a preview
package, or build your own from CVS, but in the meantime, you may be
better off with 1.7, depending on your requirements.

Gavin

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On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, 10:38:40 PM, Pierre wrote:

Guy,

thanks for your quick reply.

This bugs triggers a problem in PragDave rublog.

I wonder (sorry for my ignorance) if 1.8 is on the way to be packaged
(as 1.7 is in the debian and is supposed to be an unstable version) ?

I stumbled over Akira Yamada webpage[1] which describes two apt
sources[2] for debian, but they doesn’t seem to contain any ruby1.8 version.

Thanks for any hint :slight_smile: