From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T14:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: FileUtils.mv not working?


ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> 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?

well, i want to move it. of course I can cp_r + rm_r which is
equivalent (and what I ended up doing to work around it) but it seems
to me mv should work.

t.