From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T07:25:30+09:00
Subject: Re: How to copy a file to a non existing directory ?

On 11/8/06, Martin Martinos <mchabotsol@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to copy a file to a directory that does not exist ? If I
> try
>
> require 'fileutils'
>

FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname('c:/mart/martin.txt'))

> FileUtils.cp('c:/trash.txt', 'c:/mart/martin.txt')
>
> I get the following message :
>
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1246:in `initialize': No such file or
> director
> y - c:/mart/martin.txt (Errno::ENOENT)
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1246:in `open'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1246:in `copy_file'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1245:in `open'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1245:in `copy_file'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:459:in `copy_file'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:383:in `cp'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1379:in
> `fu_each_src_dest'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1395:in
> `fu_each_src_dest0'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1377:in
> `fu_each_src_dest'
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:382:in `cp'
>         from C:/Documents and Settings/mchabot/Desktop/CompileServer/New
> Ruby Pr
> ogram.rb:3
>
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