Dir[] and Windows Network Addresses

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Watch the single versus double quotes. However, that's not the problem
anway.

Specifying the root makes it fail:

irb(main):019:0> Dir["*.*"]
=> ["AUTOEXEC.BAT", "boot.ini"] # Much snippage

irb(main):016:0> Dir["C:\\*.*"]
=>

However, Dir.entries should do the trick in the meantime:

irb(main):017:0> Dir.entries("\\\\vadevweb\\public")
=> [".", "..", "Builds", "Devtools", "Projects", "vss"]

Looks like a bug in Dir.glob to me.

Regards,

Dan

PS - Find.find seems to handle UNC paths alright, too.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Takita [mailto:brian.takita@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:11 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Dir and Windows Network Addresses

Hello,

Is is possible to get the contents of a Windows network
directory using Dir?

I would think it would be something like
Dir['\\\\Computer\\Dir\\*'] but nothing shows up.

Is there a way to access the a Windows network directory
without having to call exec 'dir \\\\Computer\\Dir' and
parsing the output?

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Berger, Daniel wrote:

> From: Brian Takita [mailto:brian.takita@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:11 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Dir and Windows Network Addresses
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Is is possible to get the contents of a Windows network
> directory using Dir?
>
> I would think it would be something like
> Dir['\\\\Computer\\Dir\\*'] but nothing shows up.
>
> Is there a way to access the a Windows network directory
> without having to call exec 'dir \\\\Computer\\Dir' and
> parsing the output?

Watch the single versus double quotes. However, that's not the problem
anway.

Specifying the root makes it fail:

irb(main):019:0> Dir["*.*"]
=> ["AUTOEXEC.BAT", "boot.ini"] # Much snippage

irb(main):016:0> Dir["C:\\*.*"]
=>

However, Dir.entries should do the trick in the meantime:

irb(main):017:0> Dir.entries("\\\\vadevweb\\public")
=> [".", "..", "Builds", "Devtools", "Projects", "vss"]

Looks like a bug in Dir.glob to me.

Yeah, this is funny:

irb(main):001:0> Dir['C:\\*.*']
=>
irb(main):002:0> Dir['C:/*.*']
=> ["C:/AUTOEXEC.BAT", "C:/BOOT.INI", "C:/BOOTSECT.DOS",
"C:/COMLOG.txt", "C:/CONFIG.SYS", "C:/DELL.SDR", "C:/hiberfil.sys",
"C:/IO.SYS", "C:/MSDOS.SYS", "C:/NTDETECT.COM", "C:/pagefile.sys",
"C:/volumeid.zbx"]

That was using the irb from the 1-click installer, same thing happens
using Ruby on Cygwin.

-Charlie

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> -----Original Message-----

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Hi,

At Fri, 24 Jun 2005 06:36:50 +0900,
Berger, Daniel wrote in [ruby-talk:146310]:

However, Dir.entries should do the trick in the meantime:

irb(main):017:0> Dir.entries("\\\\vadevweb\\public")
=> [".", "..", "Builds", "Devtools", "Projects", "vss"]

Looks like a bug in Dir.glob to me.

Not a bug. Backslash is a metacharacter, so you have to use
forward slashes instead.

  Dir.entries("//vadevweb/public")

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--
Nobu Nakada

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That works, thank you.