From: Robert Thornton <Rthornton@...>
Date: 2001-06-05T00:01:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16204] Newbie:  Copying files


Greetings all,

I'm very new to Ruby but I'm enjoying what I've found so far.  I'm
trying to write a little app to get myself started with Ruby.  I want to
open a file which contains a list of filenames (each on a separate line)
and copy each file from the current directory, to another directory.
What I've tried is:

require 'ftools'
IO.foreach("dswFileList.txt") {|line| File.copy("line", "..\line") }

But that gives me an error in ftools.rb 'size' : No such file or
directory.  I tried replacing "..\line" with "..\#{line}" and a few
other things, but I got the same error message.

Then I tried the following:

aFile = File.open("dswFileList.txt")
aFile.each do |file|
  File.copy (file, '..\#{file}')
  puts "Copied #{file}"
end

This gets me closer, however, it changes the filename to #{file}, but it
does put it in the proper directory.  

I'd appreciate any help in straightening this out.  Is there an easier
way to do this, or am I just screwing up my syntax.

Thanks!

Rob Thornton