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In Ruby, Dir.glob("**/*.rb") (for instance) doesn’t traverse symlinked directories. Is it possible to get the ** to traverse symlinks?
I’m using two gems which find files this way, but I need them to see files within a symlinked directory.
Jonathan’s clever and cunning approach is great, capable of slashing through hordes of symlinks with but a mere flick of a few asterisks, muahaha. However, it has the unfortunate side-effect of not returning immediate-child matches. An improved version might be:
Which will (in my tests) do both follow one symlink and return immediate children.