Does File or FTools support rm -rf?

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Hi

I am looking for the Ruby equivalent of the system call:

system("rm -rf ")

Does is exist?

Thanks

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Try

require "fileutils"
FileUtils.rm_rf "some-dir"

/Johan Holmberg

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On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Jim Freeze wrote:

I am looking for the Ruby equivalent of the system call:

system(“rm -rf ”)

Does is exist?