What happened to File.copy?

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Did File.copy and File.cp disappear sometime between Ruby 1.6 and 1.8?
Is there an alternative in 1.8?

Ron

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Ron Coutts wrote:

Did File.copy and File.cp disappear sometime between Ruby 1.6 and 1.8?
Is there an alternative in 1.8?

#copy is not in the core, it’s in the ftools library.

Hal

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require ‘fileutils’
FileUtils.cp(source, dest)

-Mark

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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:48:59AM +0900, Ron Coutts wrote:

Did File.copy and File.cp disappear sometime between Ruby 1.6 and 1.8?
Is there an alternative in 1.8?

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require ‘ftools’

Ron Coutts wrote:

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Did File.copy and File.cp disappear sometime between Ruby 1.6 and 1.8?
Is there an alternative in 1.8?

Ron

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Try to require ‘fileutils’ and use FileUtils.cp or FileUtils.copy
instead.

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On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 23:48, Ron Coutts wrote:

Did File.copy and File.cp disappear sometime between Ruby 1.6 and 1.8?
Is there an alternative in 1.8?

–
o=lambda{|o|p o};O=Struct.new(:a,:b,:c);e=%q((?h,(?h,(?\ ,(?s,(?u,(74)),
(?t)),(?t,(?o,(?n,(?a))))),(82,(?r,(?e),(32)),(32,(98,(?u),(?y)))
)),(?r,(99,(97),(?k,nil,(?e))),_(10))));def _(*a)O.new(*a)end;class O;def
e(&o)b&&b.e(&o);o[a];c&&c.e(&o)end;end;def p(o)print(‘’<<o)end;eval(e).e(&o)

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#copy is not in the core, it’s in the ftools library.

Thanks all. Rookie question… :slight_smile:

Ron

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AFAIK ftools.rb is obsolete now, it’s mentioned on the “old” list here:

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On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 23:56, Hal Fulton wrote:

#copy is not in the core, it’s in the ftools library.

Hal

–
o=lambda{|o|p o};O=Struct.new(:a,:b,:c);e=%q((?h,(?h,(?\ ,(?s,(?u,(74)),
(?t)),(?t,(?o,(?n,(?a))))),(82,(?r,(?e),(32)),(32,(98,(?u),(?y)))
)),(?r,(99,(97),(?k,nil,(?e))),_(10))));def _(*a)O.new(*a)end;class O;def
e(&o)b&&b.e(&o);o[a];c&&c.e(&o)end;end;def p(o)print(‘’<<o)end;eval(e).e(&o)

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Florian Frank wrote:

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On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 23:56, Hal Fulton wrote:

#copy is not in the core, it’s in the ftools library.

Hal

AFAIK ftools.rb is obsolete now, it’s mentioned on the “old” list here:

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyLibraryCleanup/WhichLibrariesAreOld

Thanks. I think I liked it better the other way.
Doesn’t really matter.

Hal