Bug #14652: ruby -e "p ARGV" **/* is reasonably but slow

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.4.1p111 (2017-03-22 revision 58053) [i386-mingw32]
• Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN

[sanae (Sanae Artoria)]

C:\Users\Administrator>ruby -e "p ARGV" **/*

Runs slow because it globs all things in it as well known.
But can I disable this feature only to get the pattern "**/*"?

[sanae (Sanae Artoria)]

• Subject changed from ruby -e "p ARGV" **/* is reasonabe but slow to ruby -e "p ARGV" **/* is reasonably but slow

[sanae (Sanae Artoria)]

double quoted string "/*" is the same
but solved by single quoted string argument '/*'

[jwmittag (Jörg W Mittag)]

sanae (Sanae Artoria) wrote:

C:\Users\Administrator>ruby -e "p ARGV" **/*

Runs slow because it globs all things in it as well known.
But can I disable this feature only to get the pattern "**/*"?

Globbing is performed by the shell. It has nothing to do with Ruby, and there is nothing Ruby can do about it. You need to read the documentation of whatever shell you are using to figure out how to disable it.

[duerst (Martin Dürst)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

Closed as irrelevant, as explained by jwmittag (Jörg W Mittag).