Help copying files

[Bob Miner]

Hi,
I'm tryin to have Ruby copy some files so I don't have to

I can make the Directories, but apparently I need FTOOLS to actually
copy some files from hither to yon.

I can't seem to find FTOOLS.....anybody know where to get it? And
then....
where do I put it so Ruby can "see & use" it.

OR....

Is there a different/better way to copy files than FTOOLS?

I'm tryin to avoid actually opening EVERY FILE and loopin thru each line
writin into the new file......but I'm not above doin that

 

[Stefan Lang]

Hi,
I'm tryin to have Ruby copy some files so I don't have to

I can make the Directories, but apparently I need FTOOLS to actually
copy some files from hither to yon.

I can't seem to find FTOOLS.....anybody know where to get it? And
then....
where do I put it so Ruby can "see & use" it.

OR....

Is there a different/better way to copy files than FTOOLS?

Use FileUtils:

require "fileutils"
FileUtils.cp src, dest

ri has lots of documentation about it!

Stefan

 

[Lloyd Linklater]

Here is a bit from Matz' book:

The copy method will copy a file to a new name or location. It has an
optional flag parameter to write error messages to standard error. The
UNIX-like name cp is an alias.

require "fileutils"

# Copy epsilon to theta and log any errors.
FileUtils.copy("epsilon","theta", true)

 

[Bob Miner]

Thanks....worked great!