Thread: Copying a whole directory and its content

I've been working on a file manager/mp3 manager for the last week.
Now that my user interface and some minor functions are completed I just need to code the delete and copy functions.
Delete function went well, I used the unlink and rmdir function but for the copying of the files I am wondering if there would be a command to copy the whole lot.

Currently I would copy a folder and all it's contents by reading all the files and when I encounter a file I would open it as binary and write it to the destination folder as binary too.
When I would encounter a directory I woul add it in the destinationdirectory with the mkdir and read it's contents recursively til the directory is copied.

So my question is: Is there any easier/better way to do the copying?

Note:
I am currently using a Windows machine (and a NTFS file system) so windows.h is included.

Thanks anyway.

system("cp -r source dest") ?

Or you could implement it yourself, ie open the source directory and copy each file to the destination. Recursively copying folders. With opendir() or whatever the windows equivalent for that is.

There are better ways than system() to start a program. The point of my example is that if you have UNIX or Cygwin, cp does exactly what you want.

Experience with the delete function has thought me that a the system() function could sometimes crash the application

Ouch. Yes, and it's slow too.