From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-12-25T00:53:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie - open file permission denied

Bob Smith wrote:
> I am attempting to open a directory, open each file and send each line
> of the file to a network host.
> I can get the code to work for a single file, but the script fails with
> a "permission denied" error when I attempt to do this for each file in a
> directory.
> 
> *****CODE*****
> IPADDR= "some ip address"
> OUTPORT = "some ip port"
> INDIR = "some directory"
> dir = Dir.open(INDIR)
> dir.each do |f|
> file = File.open(f,"r")
> streamSock = TCPSocket::new(IPADDR,OUTPORT)
> while(line = file.gets)
> streamSock.send(line,0)
> end
> streamSock.close
> file.close
> end
> *****END CODE******
> any help greatly appreciated
> 
> Thank you.

The filenames returned by dir.each are just filenames, not the complete 
paths. You may need to prepend the INDIR directory name to the filenames 
to get a complete path to open.


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