From: ghutchinson@... (Greg Hutchinson)
Date: 2001-12-05T04:23:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27476] Newbie Question - System

I am running under
Window NT 4.0

Other environment info
J:\>c:\ruby\bin\ruby -v
ruby 1.6.5 (2001-09-19) [i386-cygwin]

J:\>dir j:\*.txt
Volume in drive J has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 3874-7E1F

Directory of j:\

12/03/01  04:31p                 1,648 abc.txt
12/04/01  11:09a                     0 d.txt
12/03/01  04:31p                 1,648 output.txt

Now if I execute the following ruby program

cmd = "cmd /C copy j:abc.txt d.txt"
#cmd = "cmd /C copy j:\\abc.txt d.txt"
#cmd = "cmd /C copy \*.txt d.txt"

if system(cmd)
  puts "true"
else
  puts "false"
end

The file abc.txt gets copied to d.txt and true gets printed.

However, if I uncomment any of line 2 or 3 in the program, false gets
printed.
I am probably doing something really stupid here, but I seem to be stuck. I
have tried other options but can not seem to get a fully qualified path
parameter (or wildcard) to work.
What I would ideally like is
    cmd = "cmd /C copy *.* d:\\"
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
.... Greg ...