FileDir

C is a powerful programming language for operating and interacting with the Window OS. In C, we can directly run window commands (normally use in cmd, powershell or terminal) by the system(char *command) function. Thus, we can take its advantage to easily manipulate folders and files. This homemade library is dedicated to provide you some simple operations that implement the idea above.

Project Structure

My project supplies you the FileDir library as well as a demo project to show you how to use it. If you use DevC++ IDE, you can open the .dev file to understand the stucture of each one.

• Folder lib contains the library.
• Folder demo contains the demo project.

API

The library is consisted of three parts:

• FileDirHandler.h - contains some general variables, it does not have any function so that you needn't include it.
• FileHandler.h - file handling functions
  • int is_file_exist(char *path) - check whether the file is existed or not. path is the file's path.
  • void file_make(char *path) - create a file at path.
  • void file_delete(char *path) - delete the path file.
  • void file_copy(char *src_path, char *des_path) - copy src_path file to des_path folder.
• DirHandler.h - directory (folder) handling functions
  • int is_dir_exist(char *path) - check whether the folder is existed or not. path is the folder's path.
  • void dir_make(char *path) - create new folder at path.
  • void dir_delete(char *path) - delete folder path.
  • void dir_copy(char *src_path, char *des_path) - copy folder (and all child folders and files inside) from src_path to des_path.

Quick Demonstration

Let say, we have a folder locating at C:\QuickDemoSrc\target_folder. We want to move the target_folder folder to C:\QuickDemoDes and remember the target_folder has some child folders and files in it.

This is a quick example for copying folder:

#include <stdio.h>
#include "DirHandler.h"
#include "FileHandler.h"

char *src_path = "C:\\QuickDemoSrc\\target_folder";
char *des_path = "C:\\QuickDemoDes";
char *example_folder_path = "C:\\QuickDemoSrc\\target_folder\\example";
char *example_file_path1 = "C:\\QuickDemoSrc\\target_folder\\example1.txt";
char *example_file_path2 = "C:\\QuickDemoSrc\\target_folder\\example2.txt";
char *example_file_path3 = "C:\\QuickDemoSrc\\target_folder\\example\\example3.txt";

/*
	Create the example
*/
void create_environment() {
	dir_make(src_path);
	dir_make(des_path);
	dir_make(example_folder_path);
	file_make(example_file_path1);
	file_make(example_file_path2);
	file_make(example_file_path3);
}

int main() {
	create_environment();
	dir_copy(src_path,des_path); // Copy the folder
	return 0;
}

You may see the demo for more information.