Daz (or others) permissioning problem going on?

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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” dooby@d10.karoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:33:37 +0900
References: 83616 </cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/83616>
“Kurt Euler” keuler@portal.com wrote:

  1. 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

2

The example I gave assumed that C:\TEMP exists already.
If ‘C:\test’ doesn’t exist, mkdir won’t be able to create sub-directory ‘C:\test\rbcopies’.

I’m on Win98, so I can’t help with permissions, sorry.

daz

···

“Kurt Euler” keuler@portal.com wrote:

[…] 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