From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-27T13:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: FileUtils.mv not working?

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Trans wrote:

> I'm trying to move a folder from the /tmp dir (accessed via Dir.tmpdir)
> to the current working directory. It fails to do the move and instead
> just copies the folder. I get no error or warning. I can do it just
> find from the command line:
>
>  mv /tmp/foo bar
>
> but if I try
>
>  ruby -w -rfileutils -e "FileUtils.mv('/tmp/foo', 'bar'))"
>
> It only copies. Anyone have any idea why?
>
> Thanks,
> T.
>
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux] on ubuntu

shouldn't you be using .cp_r?

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