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class · Ruby 3.0

Dir

< Object include Enumerable 14 instance methods 21 class methods

Objects of class Dir are directory streams representing directories in the underlying file system. They provide a variety of ways to list directories and their contents. See also File.

The directory used in these examples contains the two regular files (config.h and main.rb), the parent directory (..), and the directory itself (.).

Class methods 21

.[] .chdir .children .chroot .delete .each_child .empty? .entries .exist? .foreach .getwd .glob .home .mkdir .mktmpdir .new .open .pwd .rmdir .tmpdir .unlink

Instance methods 14

#children #close #each #each_child #fileno #inspect #path #pos #pos= #read #rewind #seek #tell #to_path

Ruby version changes 1

  1. 3.0