Copying complete Folders in C++!

Hey,

Pleas can anyone help me with this problem.
I know the regular copy function:

system("copy file file");

but how to copy a complete folder (with this function it wont work)

thx a lot,

Adriaan

if youre looking to do a system call for it, use the command xcopy. there is a switch to make it not ask if it is a folder or a file. xcopy /? for help. windows only, though

'xcopy /e' copies entire directories, recursively.

On linux, use 'cp -R'

PS: sorry for necromancing...

System() (which is not the definition of a system call!) only returns the return value of that shell command. If you want to have more control you could write your own copier (just with opening, reading and writing files).

For windows there is a copy function CopyFile (which is of course a system call..) you can use, example:
http://www.geocities.com/rodolfofrino/CopySubdirectory.html

To 'browse' a directory you can use opendir/readdir for linux and findNextfile for windows (this is also in the example). An alternative for linux is using glob().

With these functions you can have more control and do better error checking and feedback. But it is a lot more work