Re: [LAD] OT.C Library for mounting, processing data

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:07:21 +0700 Patrick Shirkey &lt;pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com&gt; wrote: regarding cp: if you do this in c++, you might want to use boost::filesystem::copy_file() it's very c++ish, (see below) and less platform dependent. See http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm There is a lot of nice stuff there ... Complete example: Source File: copy_file.cc #include <boost/filesystem/operations.hpp> int main(void) { boost::filesystem::path p("file1"); boost::filesystem::path p2("file2"); boost::filesystem::copy_file(p, p2); return 0; } compile: % g++ copy_file.cc -l boost_filesystem try out: % ./a.out terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error' what(): boost::filesystem::copy_file: "file1", "file2": No such file or directory Aborted # OK, create the missing file and try again: % touch file1 % ls file? file1 % ./a.out % ls file? file1 file2 # Try once more % ./a.out terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error' what(): boost::filesystem::copy_file: "file1", "file2": File exists Aborted -- Markus Schwarzenberg