Folder delete script

ruby-talk
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Hi. I am a rubyn00b. I need help. I'm trying to write a script that will
delete specific sub folders in a particular folder. I would like to delete
all folders that begin with lets say the letter "T" that are two weeks old.
It would probably work like the deltree command in dos (deltree T*.* /s).
How would I write that in ruby? Is it also possible to use wildcards in
ruby? If so how? Any help would be greatly appreciated. TY!

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The Dir.glob command will help you find folders that start with a
particular letter. The File.stat command will help you determine the
creation / modification times of those folders and whether or not they
are folders at all.

The documentation for these items can be found on the Ruby-doc website.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/

Have fun learning Ruby! Ruby has taught me more about programming
than any other language out there. The community is simply wonderful,
too.

Blessings,
TwP

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On 4/2/07, Gus Hoppes <gushoppes@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi. I am a rubyn00b. I need help. I'm trying to write a script that will
delete specific sub folders in a particular folder. I would like to delete
all folders that begin with lets say the letter "T" that are two weeks old.
It would probably work like the deltree command in dos (deltree T*.* /s).
How would I write that in ruby? Is it also possible to use wildcards in
ruby? If so how? Any help would be greatly appreciated. TY!

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harp:~ > cat a.rb
require 'fileutils'

pattern = 'T*.*'

Dir.glob('**/**') do |entry|
   next unless test ?d, entry
   FileUtils.rm_rf entry if File.fnmatch pattern, entry
end

-a

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On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Gus Hoppes wrote:

Hi. I am a rubyn00b. I need help. I'm trying to write a script that will
delete specific sub folders in a particular folder. I would like to delete
all folders that begin with lets say the letter "T" that are two weeks old.
It would probably work like the deltree command in dos (deltree T*.* /s).
How would I write that in ruby? Is it also possible to use wildcards in
ruby? If so how? Any help would be greatly appreciated. TY!

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