From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-05-18T00:18:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How  to a copy a file ?

On Tue, 18 May 2004 00:08:53 +0900
"Florent 'flure' C." <flurePASDESPAM@freePASDESPAM.fr> wrote:

> Le Mon, 17 May 2004 23:53:04 +0900, Simon Strandgaard a �crit�:
> 
> >  require 'fileutils'
> >  # have a look at 
> >  FileUtils.cp
> 
> Ok, thanks :)
> So I was missing something ; the FileUtils class isn't described in the
> Pragmatic Programmer's Guide :(

The pickaxe book is unfortunatly quite old.
 

The RI is a commandline reference tool.. with all the goodies from pickaxe,
where everything is uptodate.

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ri/


For instance

server> ri FileUtils.cp
----------------------------------------------------------- FileUtils#cp
     cp(src, dest, options = {})
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Options: preserve noop verbose

     Copies a file +src+ to +dest+. If +dest+ is a directory, copies
     +src+ to +dest/src+.

     If +src+ is a list of files, then +dest+ must be a directory.

       FileUtils.cp 'eval.c', 'eval.c.org'
       FileUtils.cp %w(cgi.rb complex.rb date.rb), '/usr/lib/ruby/1.6'
       FileUtils.cp %w(cgi.rb complex.rb date.rb), '/usr/lib/ruby/1.6', :verbose => true


     (also known as copy)
server>


-- 
Simon Strandgaard