From: Derek Smith Date: 2009-08-13T10:48:10+09:00 Subject: move a file I looked around here and could not find a similar example. please help. My goal is to mv a file like so: mv /tmp/dev.log /usr/local/dev.log.tst using Ruby 1.8.7 ruby /tmp/test /tmp/test:8: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting kDO_BLOCK derek@derek-laptop:/tmp$ cat /tmp/test #!/usr/bin/env ruby -w require 'ftools'; require 'fileutils'; file="dev.log" FileUtils.cp("#{file}", "#{file}.copied") ZIPDIR = "/usr/local/" FileUtils.mv("#{file}.copied",ZIPDIR"#{file}.tst") -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.