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Old 05-29-2012
Question Copying folders from one location to another..

Hi all,

I need a suggestion in the following case,

I have folder1, folder2 ,folder3 and file1 inside /home/test/source ..

I need to copy all the folders and files to another location /home/test/destination

Pls suggest any way to program this in C++.. Smilie

Last edited by selvarajvs; 05-29-2012 at 03:26 AM..
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Old 05-30-2012
This is one case where using system() with a short script is far easier than all of the open, read, write, close, readdir, etc. calls you would have to make.
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