nobu / ruby-lang.org wrote: <snip> >>>> uld put this in FileUtils? >>>> >>> In pure Ruby, Pathname might be the best. >>> >> That doesn't strike me as immediately intuitive. Also, I wouldn't >> expect a singleton method on the Pathname class. There aren't any >> currently that I recall. >> > > Agreed. > > >> How about ftools then? There we've got File instead of FileUtils. >> > > ftools is obsolete. > Maybe it's best to keep it 3rd party then. I'm going to add File.null to the ptools package and put out the next release today or tomorrow. http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/735/308/README.html Thanks all, for the feedback. Regards, Dan