From: Stefan Lang <langstefan@...>
Date: 2005-07-23T17:44:14+09:00
Subject: Re: What's a canonical way to copy a file?

On Saturday 23 July 2005 10:35, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> It's easy to copy a file with File#{open,read,write}, but I'm
> surprised there isn't a prepackaged (OS-independent) API for it like
> Perl's File::Copy.  I've haven't found any solutions in ri, Pickaxe II
> or the RAA.  Have I missed something?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy Henty

You get more with Ruby's FileUtils (comes with standard Ruby since 1.8.0):

    require 'fileutils'
    FileUtils.cp "source", "target"

For a list of all methods with documentation:

    % ri FileUtils

HTH,
  Stefan