Get all file names in a directory with ruby

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I'm new to Ruby and I'm trying to get all the file names from a specific directory. There is only one level, and just need to get the entire list of names. How do I do that? I've looked at some of the other posts on the subject, but none helped.

score 16 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 04 '12 at 00:56

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To list all the entries in the current directory:

Dir.entries('.')

answered Oct 04 '12 at 00:56

pje

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It's worth mentioning that this returns an array of strings that also contains `'.'` and `'..'`. – Niek Aug 19 '17 at 16:28

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '12 at 00:57

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Dir.new('.').each {|file| puts file }

Note that this will include . and ..

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score 6 · Answer 3 · 2012-11-11T19:03:14.207

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Seems OP asking about to list only files, not dirs as well.

Dir['path/to/dir/*'].select { |e| File.file?(e) }

edited Nov 11 '12 at 19:03

answered Oct 04 '12 at 04:21

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 04 '12 at 01:00

You may use Dir#glob to return specific filenames for specific directory

Dir.glob("*") #Get all filenames on current directory
Dir.glob("somedirectory/*") #Get all filenames on some directory
Dir.glob("somedirectory/*.php") #Get specific files with specific extension on some directory

Get all file names in a directory with ruby

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