From: Henry Maddocks Date: 2013-04-27T08:22:28+09:00 Subject: Re: copying files syntax with FileUtils.rb (grr.) On 27/04/2013, at 10:44 AM, Thomas Luedeke wrote: > Dir.mkdir( "move_dir" ) > Dir.chdir( move_dir ) You create a directory called "move_dir". Then you cd into the directory pointed to by the variable move_dir which at that point is nil, thus the error no such file or directory called nil. Henry