From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-08-22T13:04:29+09:00
Subject: Re: copy a folder and its contents

On Thursday 21 August 2008 11:35:04 Michael Morin wrote:

> files = Dir.glob('*')
> FileUtils.mkdir 'backup'
> FileUtils.cp_r files, 'backup'
> 
> This avoids cp_r trying to descend into the folder it's copying into.

Well, only if "backup" doesn't already exist. Maybe:

files = Dir.glob('*') - ['backup']
FileUtils.mkdir 'backup' unless Dir.exists? 'backup'
FileUtils.cp_r files, 'backup'