Options: preserve noop verbose

Copies a file content src to dest. If dest is a directory, copies src to +dest/src+.

If src is a list of files, then dest must be a directory.

FileUtils.cp 'eval.c', 'eval.c.org'
FileUtils.cp %w(cgi.rb complex.rb date.rb), '/usr/lib/ruby/1.6'
FileUtils.cp %w(cgi.rb complex.rb date.rb), '/usr/lib/ruby/1.6', :verbose => true
FileUtils.cp 'symlink', 'dest'   # copy content, "dest" is not a symlink

Source Code

# File fileutils.rb, line 378
def cp(src, dest, options = {})
  fu_check_options options, OPT_TABLE['cp']
  fu_output_message "cp#{options[:preserve] ? ' -p' : ''} #{[src,dest].flatten.join ' '}" if options[:verbose]
  return if options[:noop]
  fu_each_src_dest(src, dest) do |s, d|
    copy_file s, d, options[:preserve]
  end
end