From a76a8a080466f7a11b3b712b04507450890944cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Buch <daniel.buch@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:55:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ex17

---
 .gitignore |  1 +
 ex17.rb    | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 test.txt   |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 ex17.rb
 create mode 100644 test.txt

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b25c15b..a3f37ab 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 *~
+copied.txt
diff --git a/ex17.rb b/ex17.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6b07d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ex17.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+from_file, to_file = ARGV
+script = $0
+
+puts "Copying from #{from_file} to #{to_file}"
+
+# we could do these two on one line too, how?
+input = File.open(from_file)
+indata = input.read()
+
+puts "The input file is #{indata.length} bytes long"
+
+puts "Does the output file exist? #{File.exists? to_file}"
+puts "Ready, hit RETURN to continue, CTRL-C to abort."
+STDIN.gets
+
+output = File.open(to_file, 'w')
+output.write(indata)
+
+puts "Alright, all done."
+
+output.close()
+input.close()
diff --git a/test.txt b/test.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d66b25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+To all the people out there.
+I say I don't like my hair.
+I need to shave it off.