From: Jonathan Gold <jgold.bg@...>
Date: 2012-04-11T04:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Copy all files in a directory

You may well get a simpler solution (and I'll be interested to see it myself),
but fwiw, here's how I roll with this kind of problem:
    
    Dir.chdir( dir1 ) do
        Dir.glob( "**/*" ).select { |f| File.file?( f ) }.each do |f|
            dest = "#{dir2}/#{f}"
            FileUtils.mkdir_p( File.dirname( dest ) )
            FileUtils.cp( f, dest )
        end
    end

It's worth having a strategy for handling failures (remove partially copied dir2
in begin/rescue, or perhaps modify the block above to detect and remove existing
dest files, etc)

jonathan

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 03:57:37AM +0900, Charlie B. wrote:
> Still new to Ruby and feel silly having to ask such a simple question,
> but I can't find any examples of this on the web.
> 
> I have files in Dir1.  I want to copy all the files, and only the files,
> to Dir2.  I don't always know the name of them or their extensions, I
> just want them all copied.
> 
> Is there really nothing as simple as xcopy c:\dir1\*.* c:\dir2 ??  I
> can't find a wildcard argument under FileUtils.cp.  Am I missing the
> painfully obvious solution here?
> 
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