I have a small task which I was considering using ruby for - if anyone has a
minute and could quickly type in the ruby code (assuming its a few lines)
that would be fantastic. The spec is:
Input
- Small ruby program needs to be triggered by a windows batch file (
i.e. called out from within a windows batch file)
- The batch file will be provided (from the program that kicks it off)
with a variable containing a filename
Processing
- Take the filename as input
- To search for files under a given directory (so in including
sub-directories) and delete any files which match the conditions:
- (size < 7kb) AND (size > 5kb)
- file is closed (i.e. don't want to pick up a file currently
being written to by the program which may be just starting to grow)
- Optionally (not sure yet) - May want to limit the files to
those which match a wildcard version of the filename which was
provided by the batch file (e.g. if filename was "
thisfile-v22.mpg", may want to filter on only files matching "
thisfile*" if that makes sense.
Output
- No real output required, however if it was simple a log file which
was appended to with Date/Time, FileDeleted may be nice
I thought *you* were considering using Ruby for this task.
Seriously, why don't you give it a shot and give us a shout at any point you get stuck on. Send us the broken code and we will gladly help you over the hump. You will learn a lot more that way and may even surprise yourself.
James Edward Gray II
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On Nov 29, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Greg Hauptmann wrote:
I have a small task which I was considering using ruby for - if anyone has a
minute and could quickly type in the ruby code (assuming its a few lines)
that would be fantastic.
This smells like a homework , by the way , the best approach to Ruby is
practice by coding yourself then post the code for others to check or
optimize
Hope this piece of code helps you somehow
Dir.foreach("./") {|x| File.delete(x) if (File.size(x) <7*1024)&&(File.size(x)
···
5*1024) }
On 11/29/06, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I have a small task which I was considering using ruby for - if anyone has
a
minute and could quickly type in the ruby code (assuming its a few lines)
that would be fantastic. The spec is:
Input
- Small ruby program needs to be triggered by a windows batch file (
i.e. called out from within a windows batch file)
- The batch file will be provided (from the program that kicks it off)
with a variable containing a filename
Processing
- Take the filename as input
- To search for files under a given directory (so in including
sub-directories) and delete any files which match the conditions:
- (size < 7kb) AND (size > 5kb)
- file is closed (i.e. don't want to pick up a file currently
being written to by the program which may be just starting to grow)
- Optionally (not sure yet) - May want to limit the files to
those which match a wildcard version of the filename which was
provided by the batch file (e.g. if filename was "
thisfile-v22.mpg", may want to filter on only files matching "
thisfile*" if that makes sense.
Output
- No real output required, however if it was simple a log file which
was appended to with Date/Time, FileDeleted may be nice
wow - one line - thanks heaps - gives me some pointers re where to dive into
the API doco/classes - take your points
thanks
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On 11/30/06, Hung Dao <mephis1987@gmail.com> wrote:
This smells like a homework , by the way , the best approach to Ruby is
practice by coding yourself then post the code for others to check or
optimize
Hope this piece of code helps you somehow
Dir.foreach("./") {|x| File.delete(x) if (File.size(x) <7*1024)&&(
File.size(x)
>5*1024) }
On 11/29/06, Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a small task which I was considering using ruby for - if anyone
has
> a
> minute and could quickly type in the ruby code (assuming its a few
lines)
> that would be fantastic. The spec is:
>
> Input
>
> - Small ruby program needs to be triggered by a windows batch file (
> i.e. called out from within a windows batch file)
> - The batch file will be provided (from the program that kicks it off)
> with a variable containing a filename
>
> Processing
>
> - Take the filename as input
> - To search for files under a given directory (so in including
> sub-directories) and delete any files which match the conditions:
> - (size < 7kb) AND (size > 5kb)
> - file is closed (i.e. don't want to pick up a file currently
> being written to by the program which may be just starting to grow)
> - Optionally (not sure yet) - May want to limit the files to
> those which match a wildcard version of the filename which was
> provided by the batch file (e.g. if filename was "
> thisfile-v22.mpg", may want to filter on only files matching "
> thisfile*" if that makes sense.
>
> Output
>
> - No real output required, however if it was simple a log file which
> was appended to with Date/Time, FileDeleted may be nice
>
> Thanks in advance
> Greg
>
