DirHandle
Abstraction on a directory descriptor, to access the content of a directory:
var dh = Dir("/my/path").open
Some useful methods on FileHandle objects:
dh.read # read one entry as a File or a Dir object
dh.entries # read all entries as an Array of File and Dir objects
dh.files # read all file entries as an Array of File objects
dh.dirs # read all directory entries as an Array of Dir objects
dh.seek(pos) # set the current position in the directory handle
dh.rewind # set the current position to the beginning of the directory
dh.tell # returns the current position in the directory handle
dh.chdir # change the working directory to the path of `dh`
dh.each { ... } # iterate over each entry
dh.close # close the directory handle
The special DirHandle
type can be for checking if a given object is really a DirHandle object:
dh.kind_of(DirHandle) # true if `dh` is a DirHandle object
The directory object to which a DirHandle refers, if any, can be obtained with dh.dir
, which may be nil
or a Dir
object.