From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-05-25T00:23:45+09:00
Subject: Re: file copy blues

>>>>> "k" == kingsley  <kingsley@icecode.org> writes:

k> At the moment I am copying the names of all the sub directories then
k> creating them in the new location, then recursively going through each
k> of the sub directories and copying the files to the new directories
k> created.

 Well 1.8 has a module fileutils

  #
  # Options: preserve noop verbose
  # 
  # Copies +src+ to +dest+. If +src+ is a directory, this method copies
  # all its contents recursively. If +dest+ is a directory, copies
  # +src+ to +dest/src+.
  #
  # +src+ can be a list of files.
  # 
  #   # Installing ruby library "mylib" under the site_ruby
  #   FileUtils.rm_r site_ruby + '/mylib', :force
  #   FileUtils.cp_r 'lib/', site_ruby + '/mylib'
  # 
  #   # Examples of copying several files to target directory.
  #   FileUtils.cp_r %w(mail.rb field.rb debug/), site_ruby + '/tmail'
  #   FileUtils.cp_r Dir.glob('*.rb'), '/home/aamine/lib/ruby', :noop, :verbose
  # 
  def cp_r( src, dest, options = {} )
 

 For 1.6 it can be found in ruby_shim

    http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=shim-ruby16_18


Guy Decoux