Help copying files

Ruby
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Hi,
I’m tryin to have Ruby copy some files so I don’t have to :smiley:

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 :wink:

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2008/8/7 Bob M. [email protected]:

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

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Thanks…worked great!

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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)