From: Lloyd Linklater Date: 2008-08-08T00:55:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Help copying files Here is a bit from Matz' book: The copy method will copy a file to a new name or location. It has an optional flag parameter to write error messages to standard error. The UNIX-like name cp is an alias. require "fileutils" # Copy epsilon to theta and log any errors. FileUtils.copy("epsilon","theta", true) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.