From: "Alex C." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-07-04T03:34:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Copying Files

Jan E. wrote in post #1067228:
> Hi,
>
> Of course you don't have to write down every file separately. Then the
> whole program wouldn't make sense, because you might as well copy the
> files "by hand".
>
> I think the easiest way is to pass an array of the files to
> FileUtils.copy. To get an array of all files inside a folder, use
> "Dir[...]":
>
> http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Dir.html#method-c-5B-5D
>
> You have to pass a certain path pattern, which is explained here:
>
> http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Dir.html#method-c-glob
>
>
> #----------------------------
> require 'fileutils'
>
> original_path, target_path =
>   'C:/folder', 'C:/new'
> FileUtils.copy Dir["#{original_path}/**/*.*"], target_path
> #----------------------------
>
>
> By the way, be careful with backslashes in strings. Certain character
> sequences like \n have a special meaning. So you should either escape
> the backslashes (with another backslash) or replace them with normal
> slashes.

Hi,

Thanks for the your help, it works great. I was using backslashes first 
and it didn't work until I changed them! Just another thing - can I add 
an exception to the files to be copied? for example, if I didn't want 
the files from a certain folder to be copied over the the target path?

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