From: Stu <stu@...>
Date: 2013-05-07T11:48:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Files management with Ruby

Poor kittens. Here let me rubify it for you so you don't get shot:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
`cat B/*Today* >> A/Today`


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:24 PM, tamouse mailing lists
<tamouse.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --
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>>
>
> I expect to be shot for this, but you know this works amazingly well:
>
> $ cat B/*Today* >> A/Today
>