From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-04-27T13:20:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating directory and its files

Martin Sharon wrote:
> Hi there:
> I want to create a directory and create files under it.
> I can use
> 
> FileUtils.mkdir_p ARGV[0]
> 
> to create a directory, however if the directory already exist, program
> will
> generate error messages:
> 

How about posting what you want to do if the directory already exists? 
If you want to overwrite it(=delete it), then first check if the 
directory exists:

if File.exist?("dirname")

If it does, then:

if File.exist?("dirname")
 FileUtils.remove_dir("dirname")
end

But that is playing with fire.  You could end up deleting your whole 
hard drive if you get the right file name in there.   A safer option 
would be to rename the old dir, and then create the new dir.
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