Hello, this is my first post here, so first i would like to thanks all the people who works for this site. Well, i'm trying to set up a little script that should delete all the files in a given drectory; the system should work like this: -I have the name and the path of file = "/Users.....file1" -from file, i should get the directory (I've used File.dirname(file)) -from that directory, i should delete all files and sub directories except from the given file (in this case, file1) I'm making confusion when i try to iterare on the files and irectory in that folder, and i'm scared to make test of deleting files in the system Oscar -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.