From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T04:15:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie-Script for copying matching files to new destinat

On 13.05.2009 20:43, Os Ai wrote:
> 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

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

Assuming you are completely new to programming you probably want to 
start here http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ or with any other introductory 
tutorial for Ruby and then look up documentation about these core and 
standard library classes

String
Array
File
Dir
Find

You'll find it here http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/index.html and 
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/.  You can also find some hints about 
file reading in our blog, although I suggest you first consider Chris's 
book:

http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/rklemme/001-Using_blocks_for_Robustness.html 


Kind regards

	robert