------------5E1F01903BB873 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Robert, Monday, August 23, 2010, 9:25:56 AM, you wrote: RK> For the pattern above you only need RK> batches ir['MyDir/*.bat'] RK> or if you want to get fancy: RK> batches ir[File.join('MyDir', '*.bat')] RK> For the fully recursive version you can do RK> batches ir['MyDir/**/*.bat'] RK> and be done. No Gems required. You can even do RK> batches ir['MyDir/**/*.{bat,cmd}'] RK> and really get all Windows batch files. Is the stuff, above, some sort of 1.9 syntax? Do you really mean square brackets? On 1.8 ... I cannot get anything you wrote, about, to work. ------------5E1F01903BB873--