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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

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

require 'ftools'

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?
>
> Ron
>
>

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?

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

--
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)

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AFAIK ftools.rb is obsolete now, it's mentioned on the "old" list here: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?RubyL...ibrariesAreOld

--
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)

Florian Frank wrote:
> 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 AFAIK ftools.rb is obsolete now, it's mentioned on the "old" list here: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?RubyL...ibrariesAreOld

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

Hal