From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-05-27T16:58:06+09:00
Subject: Re: file copy

2010/5/27 John Wu <j_wu_76@yahoo.com>:
> I am having a weird problem. I have the following code.
>
> require "fileutils"
>
> FileUtils.cp '/path/to/file.txt', '/path/to/archive/file-date.txt'
>
> File.open('/path/to/file.txt', 'w')

You also need to close the file.

> What I want to do is copy file.txt content to file-date.txt in a sub
> directory, then reset file.txt to empty.
>
> But after I run the code above, both file.txt and file-date.txt are
> reset to empty file. What am I missing here?

Maybe /path/to/file.txt is a symlink or /path/to is liked to
/path/to/archive or /path/to/file.txt is really the same as
/path/to/archive/file-date.txt.  Somehow I have the feeling you don't
show the real code.

Kind regards

robert

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