Obtaining the Archive Attribute of a File on Windows Systems

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DeLynn Berry:

Is it possible to check the archive attribute of Windows
files using Ruby? Or, even better, is it possible to get a
list of files that have active archive bits to then be able
to copy or move to a backup location?

You can do it using brute force:

require ‘find’

Find.find( ‘c:\temp’ ) do | aFile |
if attrib #{aFile} =~ /^A/
puts aFile
end
end

But it will (as far as I can see) not work on cygwin builds.

Regards,
M.

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The command works in a Cygwin window.

Gavin

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On Monday, March 31, 2003, 3:12:15 PM, Milan wrote:

DeLynn Berry:

Is it possible to check the archive attribute of Windows
files using Ruby? Or, even better, is it possible to get a
list of files that have active archive bits to then be able
to copy or move to a backup location?

You can do it using brute force:

require ‘find’

Find.find( ‘c:\temp’ ) do | aFile |
if attrib #{aFile} =~ /^A/
puts aFile
end
end

But it will (as far as I can see) not work on cygwin builds.

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“Milan Maksimovic” maksa@sezampro.yu wrote in message news:005501c2f744$0f92f040$3bd8ecd8@tao…

You can do it using brute force:

require ‘find’

Find.find( ‘c:\temp’ ) do | aFile |
if attrib #{aFile} =~ /^A/
puts aFile
end
end

But it will (as far as I can see) not work on cygwin builds.

Regards,
M.

Milan,

That works great. Thanks a ton!

DeLynn