Copying a directory.

[Russell Greenlaw]

All,

Maybe I am missing something but how do you Copy a directory? The
DirectoryInfo and Directory classes have methods to Delete, Move and Create
directories so why no method to Copy one?

Thanks.

RGG

 

[Chris Capel]

Probably to keep from fooling you into thinking that a hypothetical
Directory.Copy would be anywhere near as efficient as any of the other
methods you mentioned. That's a pretty sucky reason, but it's all I can
think of.

Of course, to do a directory copy, all that's necessary is to write a
function like this:

function CopyDir(Directory d, string destPath) {
foreach (File f in d)
copy f to destPath
foreach (Directory c in d)
CopyDir(c, Path.Combine(destPath, c.Name));
}

Chris

 

[Russell Greenlaw]

Thanks Chris,

What is confusing is that the docs for the Directory class actually mentions
copying directories.

Thanks for the function

RGG