FileList

A FileList is essentially an array with helper methods to make file manipulation easier.

FileLists are lazy. When given a list of glob patterns for possible files to be included in the file list, instead of searching the file structures to find the files, a FileList holds the pattern for latter use.

This allows us to define a number of FileList to match any number of files, but only search out the actual files when then FileList itself is actually used. The key is that the first time an element of the FileList/Array is requested, the pending patterns are resolved into a real list of file names.

  fl = FileList.new
  fl.include('./**/*')
  fl.exclude('./*~')

History

  FileList was ported from Jim Weirich's Rake.

Authors

• Jim Weirich

Todo

• Should the exclusions really be the default? Maybe have exclude_typical instead.

Copying

Copyright (C) 2002 Jim Weirich

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