2 simple file copying questions, please assist...

[Kurt Euler]

All

I'd be grateful for someone's assistance on the following (certainly) simple questions.
(Note that I'm running Ruby 1.8 Windows)

1) I have a 2-line program with just this:

require = "ftools"
File.syscopy("test.rb", "test2.rb")

Running this returns the error "test33.rb:2: undefined method `syscopy'
for File:Class (NoMethodError)". What am I missing?

2) The following code was recommended to me by Matz some time ago.
What I want to know is, what do I replace <do_stuff_here> with
to copy every file found under "some_directory" to single target directory,
without reproducing the path structure. Result would be a single flat
directory some_target. (Not controlling for possible file duplicate
overwriting for the moment.)


for f in Dir.glob("./some_directory/**/*")
File.open(f) { |file|
<do_stuff_here>
}if File.file?(f)
end

Much obliged!!!!

-Kurt Euler

 

[daz]

2) The following code was recommended to me by Matz some time ago.
What I want to know is, what do I replace <do_stuff_here> with
to copy every file found under "some_directory" to single target directory,
without reproducing the path structure. Result would be a single flat
directory some_target. (Not controlling for possible file duplicate
overwriting for the moment.)


for f in Dir.glob("./some_directory/**/*")
File.open(f) { |file|
<do_stuff_here>
}if File.file?(f)
end

syscopy (in 'ftools' lib) can take a directory as its target
and copies the source files' basename.

#------------

require "ftools"

TARGET = 'C:/TEMP/rbcopies' # target directory
Dir.mkdir(TARGET) unless File.directory?(TARGET)

for f in Dir.glob("./some_directory/**/*")
next unless File.file?(f)
#
# check for exists? / read-only etc.
#
File.syscopy(f, TARGET)
end

#------------


daz