Newbie - Moving Contents From Folder to Another

Ruby
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Hi! I’m trying to create a program that will move contents that I’ve
downloaded (i.e. folder called “Downloads”) to another folder (“Songs”).
In other words, save mp3’s to “Downloads”, then run a Ruby script to
move them to folder called “Songs”. Can anyone point the way? I’m
playing ftools library but can’t find how to do this. Thanks so much!

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On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Wood Y. wrote:

|Hi! I’m trying to create a program that will move contents that I’ve
|downloaded (i.e. folder called “Downloads”) to another folder (“Songs”).
|In other words, save mp3’s to “Downloads”, then run a Ruby script to
|move them to folder called “Songs”. Can anyone point the way? I’m
|playing ftools library but can’t find how to do this. Thanks so much!

See the documentation for FileUtils.mv

Stefano

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Stefano,

Thanks for the suggestion. I implemented a program with your idea.
Hope it helps Wood :slight_smile:

Thanks,
Simeon

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require ‘fileutils.rb’

class SimpleMover
include FileUtils
def initialize
if ARGV.empty?
puts “Source and Destination arguments required:\n”+
“$ ruby SimpleMover.rb ~/Downloads/ ~/Music/”
else
@source = ARGV[0]
@destination = ARGV[1]
self.run
end
end
def run
mp3s = Dir.glob(@source+"*.mp3");
if mp3s.empty?
puts “No mp3s to move.”
else
puts “Moving these mp3s:\n”+mp3s.join("\n")
FileUtils.mv mp3s, @destination
end
end
end

sm = SimpleMover.new

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Here the rdoc docu
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/fileutils/rdoc/index.html

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You can omit the self. part in

self.run

Ruby is smart enough to not force the developer to use implicit self.