From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-10-07T22:22:44+09:00
Subject: Re: The old File.rename not working again. . . .



On Oct 7, 12:07 am, Nobuyoshi Nakada <n...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:15:04 +0900,
> Peter Bailey wrote in [ruby-talk:272952]:
>
> > This always throws me. I keep getting "permission denied" messages when
> > I simply try to rename files. Here's my code. The files in the directory
> > start out without an extension.
>
> > Dir.chdir("F:/images")
>
> Maybe on Windows?
>
> > Dir.glob("*").each do |file|
> >   File.new(file, "r").gets
>
> This leaves the file still opened, and on Windows, it's
> prohibited by the OS to move/rename files while they are
> opened.
>
>     if /%!PS-Adobe/ =~ IO.open(file) {|f| f.gets}
>       File.rename(file, file + ".eps")
>     end

Why would he need to open the file at all?

Dir.chdir("F:/images")
Dir.glob("*").each do |file|
  if file =~ /%!PS-Adobe/
    newfile = file + ".eps"
    File.rename(file, newfile)
  end
end

Regards,

Dan