Steel Steel wrote: > Amit Tomar wrote: >> dir ="C:/DOCUME~1/x0100039/LOCALS~1/Temp" > > Try using the full path (without ~) Thanks steel i tried with full name but still getting problem require 'fileutils' dir ="C:/Documents and Settings/x0100039/Local Settings/Temp" Dir.chdir(dir) Dir.glob('*').each do|f| FileUtils.rm(f) end but am getting these error: C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1297:in `unlink': Permission denied - CGI.3408.1 (Errno::EACCES) from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1297:in `remove_file' from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1305:in `platform_support' from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1296:in `remove_file' from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:771:in `remove_file' from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:549:in `rm' from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:548:in `each' from C:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:548:in `rm' from ruby2.rb:8 from ruby2.rb:5:in `each' from ruby2.rb:5 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.