From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T03:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie-Script for copying matching files to new destination

On 13.05.2009 19:21, Os Ai wrote:
> Being new to Ruby,am not sure if it can do these but if it can then
> someone please help.My challenge is that I want to copy certain files
> from a source location with filenames containing words listed in a text
> file to a new location. Any help would be most appreciated.Thanks in
> advance.

I am not sure what you are asking for...  How about:

1. read words from file
2. enumerate all files in the source location and check each name for a 
match
3. if there is a match copy the file from source to target

Cheers

	robert

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