nobu / ruby-lang.org wrote:

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>>>> 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 ftools is obsolete.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