Directory..move, rename, retain.

[Ninjakreborn]

I need to:

1) Take a directory named xxx (for example) that contains some files/folders ect...

2) Make a "exact copy" of that folder without harming, inadversely affecting, or deleting the original folder...but it'll be within the same folder...(will explain in a bit)

3) Rename the new folder to another name yyy (for example).

 

Here is the catch.

I need to have it structured like this.

 

/MasterFolder

/MasterFolder/xxx

I need to copy that over to

/MasterFolder/yyy

 

This is something that I haven't been able to find any good solutions for online. My main question here..is that possible?

Or do I have to do this the long way...by long way I mean:

 

1) Make a new folder named the new name of the folder they want.

2) Go and grab all the filenames from the folder that I want to mock from

3) Take each file separately and make a new copy of it in the other folder

4) Move over each folder in that xxx folder one at a time.

 

I was hoping there was a way to:

Grab folder, make a copy of it and rename it at the same time..I might be hoping for too much.

Anyone done this before?

[Catfish]

So you want ot be making a new folder called yyy and copying the contents of xxx to yyy?

[wildteen88]

You could just use exec with the following command, eg

exec('cp -r /path/to/xxx/folder /path/to/zzz/folder')

However the above will only work for *nix based systems.

 

Alternatively you can create a recursive function, such as the one posted in the user submitted comments for the copy function.