Question

As basic as this seems, I simply can’t manage to copy the contents of one file to another. Here is my code thus far:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

Dir.chdir( "/mnt/Shared/minecraft-server/plugins/Permissions" )

flist = Dir.glob( "*" )

flist.each do |mod|
    mainperms = File::open( "AwesomeVille.yml" )
    if mod == "AwesomeVille.yml"
        puts "Shifting to next item..."
        shift
    else
        File::open( mod, "w" ) do |newperms|
            newperms << mainperms
        end
    end
    puts "Updated #{ mod } with the contents of #{ mainperms }."
end

Answer 1

I realize that this isn’t the completely approved way, but

 IO.readlines(filename).join('') # join with an empty string because readlines includes its own newlines

Will load a file into a string, which you can then output into newperms just like it was a string. There’s good chance the reason this isn’t working currently is that you are trying to write an IO handler to a file, and the IO handler isn’t getting converted into a string in the way you want it to.

However, another fix might be

 newperms << mainperms.read

Also, make sure you close mainperms before the script exits, as it might break something if you don’t.

Hope this helps.