Peter B. wrote last Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:42 PM:
As a related question, do all iterators, like my “each”
below, require an “end?”
maybe we ask first “what is a block?”
Dir.chdir(“c:/scripts/ruby/temp”)
require ‘fileutils’
include FileUtils::Verbose
psfiles = Dir.glob(’*.ps’)
psfiles.collect!{ |psfile| File.basename(psfile, ‘.ps’) }
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
lose this line. you do not really need it
psfiles.each do |psfile|
puts psfile
FileUtils.cp(“psfile”, psfile + “.pageinfo”)
^^^^^^^^^
lose the quotes
thus, your copy will look like sample.ps.pageinfo. I prefer this one so
i can trace where my backups/copy came from originally (and it resolves
duplicate basenames, too)
end
kind regards -botp