Get names of all files from a folder with Ruby

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Željko Filipin picture Željko Filipin · Nov 18, 2009 · Viewed 254.2k times · Source

I want to get all file names from a folder using Ruby.

Answer

Ian Eccles picture Ian Eccles · Nov 18, 2009

You also have the shortcut option of 

Dir["/path/to/search/*"]

and if you want to find all Ruby files in any folder or sub-folder: 

Dir["/path/to/search/**/*.rb"]

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