Usuful methods – 11 of N – Copy/Move Directory
Today I have to copy an entire directory including all files, sub directories and all sub files to another directory. The .NET framework doesn’t provide such method (at least I don’t know of it) so I have coded one myself. Here’s the implementation of the CopyDirectory method.
public static void CopyDirectory(string source, string destination)
{
if (destination[destination.Length - 1] != Path.DirectorySeparatorChar)
{
destination += Path.DirectorySeparatorChar;
}
if (!Directory.Exists(destination))
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(destination);
}
var entries = Directory.GetFileSystemEntries(source);
foreach (var e in entries)
{
if (Directory.Exists(e))
{
CopyDirectory(e, destination + Path.GetFileName(e));
}
else
{
File.Copy(e, destination + Path.GetFileName(e), true);
}
}
}
MoveDirectory is very simple when we have CopyDirectory. I know it’s not as fast as it can be ( if we use File.Move()) but still it gets the job done.
public static void MoveDirectory(string source, string destination)
{
CopyDirectory(source, destination);
Directory.Delete(source);
}
For moving directories, use DirectoryInfo.MoveTo()
Or Directory.Move(). Also you might want to use Path.Combine() to avoid hacks like checking the last character of the path.