From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-05-06T13:24:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Files management with Ruby

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 3:47 PM, sdsd asda <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I am trying to build a script that does the following. Say there are two
> directories A and B. In A, there is the file called "Today". In
> directory B there are the files called "Today1", "Today2", "otherFile".
> I want to loop through directory A, open the file called "Today" and
> append all the files in Directory B that have the word "Today" in their
> file name.
>
> So where I am at is, I am trying to write a method first to just loop
> through Directory A and just add some text to the file called "Today".
> This is not working below. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?
>
> Much appreciated
>
> def append_data_to_daily_files
>        Dir.entries('A').each do |file|
>          next if !(file.match(/today/))
>          File.open(file, 'w') {|file|
>          file.write("hello")
>          file.close}
>      end
>    end
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

I expect to be shot for this, but you know this works amazingly well:

$ cat B/*Today* >> A/Today