From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2005-10-26T06:19:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Move/Dir with wildcards ?

On 10/25/05, Peter Fitzgibbons <peter.fitzgibbons@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to get this to work on WinXP/Win2003 :
>
> x = "./xmloutput/cancellations/*"
> `dir #{x} `
>
> `move #{x} "./otherdir" `
>

You're passing Ruby style filenames (i.e. with "/") to the DOS command
shell (which expects "\").

A pure Ruby solution would be:

require 'fileutils'
FileUtils.move Dir["./xmloutput/cancellations/*"], "./otherdir"

Regards,

Sean