daz (or others) permissioning problem going on?...

daz (or anyone)-

Thanks for your suggestion way below. It looks very promissing, but it seems I'm having momentary permissioning problems on my NT machine. Please assist if you can. When I run this code...

   require 'ftools'
   TARGET = 'C:/test/rbcopies'  # target directory
   Dir.mkdir(TARGET) unless File.directory?(TARGET)

   for f in Dir.glob("./**/*")
     next unless File.file?(f)
     #
     # check for exists? / read-only etc.
     #
     File.syscopy(f, TARGET)
   end

... I get this error: 

     test44.rb:3:in `mkdir': No such file or directory - C:/test/rbcopies (Errno::ENOENT)
	from test44.rb:3

When I change the drive letter in TARGET (line 2) from C: to D:, I get this error:

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:23:in `initialize': Permission denied - D:/test/rbcopies/PJF_AppCenter_FnS.doc (Errno::EACCES)
	from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:23:in `open'
	from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:23:in `syscopy'
	from test44.rb:10
	from test44.rb:5:in `each'
	from test44.rb:5

Clearly there's a permissioning issue here, but in NT I've given "Everyone" full control of both drives.

Thanks!

Kurt Euler





Subject: Re: 2 simple file copying questions, please assist...
From: "daz" <[e-mail]>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:33:37 +0900
References: 83616 </cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/83616>
"Kurt Euler" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> 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
>

syscopy (in 'ftools' lib) can take a directory as its target
and copies the source files' basename.

#------------

require "ftools"

TARGET = 'C:/TEMP/rbcopies'  # target directory
Dir.mkdir(TARGET) unless File.directory?(TARGET)

for f in Dir.glob("./some_directory/**/*")
  next unless File.file?(f)
  #
  # check for exists? / read-only etc.
  #
  File.syscopy(f, TARGET)
end

#------------


daz