From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-08-31T13:59:51+09:00
Subject: Re: HT copy a directory structure, and all files to a single directory...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Euler" <keuler@portal.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:42 PM
Subject: HT copy a directory structure, and all files to a single
directory...


> Recently Matz and others advised the code below for recursively reading
file names in a directory structure. (It works fine.)
>
> Follow up questions:
>
> -- How can I expand this (or use related) code to copy the directory
structure and files to a parallel directory where the target directories
aren't already there. (Eg, recreate the whole structure in
"../dupe_structure".)
>
> -- A slightly different objective here: Assuming all files in the
directories have unique names, how can I copy all files to a single target
directory. (It seems to me this would involve parsing f somehow to extract
just the file name. In the code below, f includes the path too.)

Some hints:

1. File.basename will extract the filename
2. File.dirname will extract the directory
3. If you use the ftools library, there is
a makepath (or something?) that will do the
equivalent of mkdir -p on UNIX. Of course,
if you make them only one level at a time,
Dir.mkdir will probably be sufficient.

Hal