From: Os Ai <osasuyiaigbe@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T03:43:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie-Script for copying matching files to new destinat

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 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

Hi Robert,
Yes you got it. I guess you know how to speak 'programming' which I 
obviously don't.So how do I go about it?

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