I want to glob a directory to post-process header files. Yet I want to exclude some directories in the project. Right now the default way is...
Dir["**/*.h"].each { |header|
puts header
}
Seems inefficient to check each header entry manually if it's in an excluded directory.
Don't use globbing, instead use Find
. Find is designed to give you access to the directories and files as they're encountered, and you programmatically decide when to bail out of a directory and go to the next. See the example on the doc page.
If you want to continue using globbing this will give you a starting place. You can put multiple tests in reject
or'd together:
Dir['**/*.h'].reject{ |f| f['/path/to/skip'] || f[%r{^/another/path/to/skip}] }.each do |filename|
puts filename
end
You can use either fixed-strings or regex in the tests.
I know this is 4 years late but for anybody else that might run across this question you can exclude from Dir the same way you would exclude from Bash wildcards:
Dir["lib/{[!errors/]**/*,*}.rb"]
Which will exclude any folder that starts with "errors" you could even omit the /
and turn it into a wildcard of sorts too if you want.
There's FileList
from the Rake gem (which is almost always installed by default, and is included in the standard library in Ruby 1.9):
files = FileList['**/*.h'].exclude('skip_me')
FileList
has lots of functionality for working with globs efficiently.
You can find the documentation here: http://rake.rubyforge.org/classes/Rake/FileList.html
files = Dir.glob(pattern)
files -= Dir.glob("#{exclude}/**/*")
One way:
require 'find'
ignores = ['doc','test','specifications']
Find.find(ENV['HOME']) do |path|
name = File.basename(path)
if FileTest.directory?(path)
if ignores.include?(name)
Find.prune
else
next
end
else
puts path if name =~ /.h$/
end
end
this is similar to a few other answers just written a bit differently
Ill create an array that can be passed to a .each iteration or something else.
release_safelist = Dir.glob('*').reject{|file| (file == "softlinks") || (file == "ci") || (file.include? "SNAPSHOT")}
In this case im creating an array without files/dir named either ci, softlinks, or containing SNAPSHOT