From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-07-20T03:31:02+09:00
Subject: Re: FileUtils.cp_r


On Jul 18, 2008, at 13:40 , Marc Heiler wrote:

> I think the docu could mention this:
>
>  FileUtils.cp_r( '/Programs/ATK/Current/'+"/.", '/usr/')


there is a whole well documented paragraph of code on it (two in fact,  
if you count the glob one):

> ---------------------------------------------------------  
> FileUtils#cp_r
>      cp_r(src, dest, options = {})
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      Options: preserve noop verbose dereference_root  
> remove_destination
>
>      Copies +src+ to +dest+. If +src+ is a directory, this method  
> copies
>      all its contents recursively. If +dest+ is a directory, copies
>      +src+ to +dest/src+.
>
>      +src+ can be a list of files.
>
>        # Installing ruby library "mylib" under the site_ruby
>        FileUtils.rm_r site_ruby + '/mylib', :force
>        FileUtils.cp_r 'lib/', site_ruby + '/mylib'
>
>        # Examples of copying several files to target directory.
>        FileUtils.cp_r %w(mail.rb field.rb debug/), site_ruby + '/ 
> tmail'
>        FileUtils.cp_r Dir.glob('*.rb'), '/home/aamine/lib/ 
> ruby', :noop => true,
> :verbose => true
>
>        # If you want to copy all contents of a directory instead of  
> the
>        # directory itself, c.f. src/x -> dest/x, src/y -> dest/y,
>        # use following code.
>        FileUtils.cp_r 'src/.', 'dest'     # cp_r('src', 'dest')  
> makes src/dest,
>                                           # but this doesn't.