From: Kurt Euler <keuler@...>
Date: 2003-10-04T14:43:54+09:00
Subject: 2 simple file copying questions, please assist...

All

I'd be grateful for someone's assistance on the following (certainly) simple questions. 
(Note that I'm running Ruby 1.8 Windows)

1) I have a 2-line program with just this:

    require = "ftools"
    File.syscopy("test.rb", "test2.rb")

   Running this returns the error "test33.rb:2: undefined method `syscopy' 
   for File:Class (NoMethodError)". What am I missing?

2) The following code was recommended to me by Matz some time ago. 
   What I want to know is, what do I replace <do_stuff_here> with 
   to copy every file found under "some_directory" to single target directory, 
   without reproducing the path structure. Result would be a single flat 
   directory some_target. (Not controlling for possible file duplicate 
   overwriting for the moment.)


   for f in Dir.glob("./some_directory/**/*")
       File.open(f) { |file|
       <do_stuff_here>
   }if File.file?(f)
   end

Much obliged!!!!

-Kurt Euler