[rake] excluding dirs with FileList

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How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a particular
directory, but _any_ directory?

I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #=== method
returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But #exclude tries to
turn its argument into a string and build up a regex.

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      vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407

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require 'find'

   file_list =
   start_path = "/path/to/directory/" <= the dir to start recursing from.

   Find.find(start_path) do |file|
       file_list << path unless test(?d, file)
   end

   p file_list

     This works unless I misunderstand what you are trying to do. See $ ri test for more info.
HTH-
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
WebMaster
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On Jul 31, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a particular
directory, but _any_ directory?

I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #=== method
returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But #exclude tries to
turn its argument into a string and build up a regex.

-- vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407

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Joel VanderWerf wrote:

How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a particular
directory, but _any_ directory?

I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #=== method
returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But #exclude tries to
turn its argument into a string and build up a regex.

--
      vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407

list =
Dir.glob( "*" ){ |f|
  list << f unless File.directory?(f)
}
p list

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Sorry if this sounds like bad advertisement, but with Rant
the same looks like:

  file_list = sys["/path/to/directory/**/*"].no_dir

Perhaps someone wants to integrate it into Rake.

HTH,
  Stefan

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On Monday 01 August 2005 05:39, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:

On Jul 31, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> How can I construct a FileList that excludes dirs? Not a
> particular directory, but _any_ directory?
>
> I had hoped that #exclude could be passed an object whose #===
> method returned true for a dir (using File#directory?). But
> #exclude tries to turn its argument into a string and build up a
> regex.
>
> --
> vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407

   require 'find'

   file_list =
   start_path = "/path/to/directory/" <= the dir to start recursing
from.

   Find.find(start_path) do |file|
       file_list << path unless test(?d, file)
   end

   p file_list

     This works unless I misunderstand what you are trying to do.