The example I gave you only copies the files, not the directories. You
may get name conflicts as a result, however.
Also the example I gave will go through every directory. If you want to
limit this you'll need to be more specific in your code.
If you don't get the relative path you can't move the file, because you
won't know where to find it.
The directory itself is not passed because line only moves the files,
not directories:
There are a few ways to do this, this one seems to work:
Dir.chdir 'C:/'
files = Dir.glob('**/*.pdf') +
Dir.glob('**/*.txt') +
Dir.glob('**/*.docx')
files.each do |fname|
File.rename File.absolute_path(fname), 'D:/document/' +
File.basename(fname)
end
Nice idea! But as an example i used such .txt,.pdf extensions. But there
can be various types of files, all I have to copy. But not any folder or
directories.
The example I gave you only copies the files, not the directories. You
may get name conflicts as a result, however.
Also the example I gave will go through every directory. If you want to
limit this you'll need to be more specific in your code.
Yes,that I understood,but What I am trying to say is in my case the file
extension can be any thing, like .vbs,.vb,rb,xlsx etc - anything. So
without hard-coding anyway to get any type of file names excluding their
directories?
I think you may need/want to test for file-ness (and not directory- or
other-ness) of the files as well.
Personally, I'd go with the Find stdlib:
require 'find'
def find_files(start,&blk)
Find.find(start) do |path|
if File.file?(path)
yield path
end
end
end
def gather_files(src,dst)
raise "#{src} is not a directory" unless File.directory?(src)
raise "#{dst} is not a directory" unless File.directory?(dst)
find_files(src) {|s| File.rename(s,File.join(dst,File.basename(s)))}
end
Then call gather_files with your source directory and target
directory; in your example:
gather_files("C:\","D:\document")
should do it.
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Arup Rakshit <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
When you rename something, you are moving it -- if you wish to retain
those files in their original place, you need to copy them to the new
destination, not rename them.
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Arup Rakshit <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
The above code during renaming deleting the file also from here
"File.absolute_path(fname)".
