Recursively copies a directory from one path to another, while creating any parent directories if they don't already exist. - CSharp File IO

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Description

Recursively copies a directory from one path to another, while creating any parent directories if they don't already exist.

Demo Code

//**************** Copyright (c) 2016 Marko Pintera (marko.pintera@gmail.com). All rights reserved. **********************//
using System.IO;//from w  w w .j  a  v  a2s  .  c om

public class Main{
        /// <summary>
        /// Recursively copies a directory from one path to another, while creating any parent directories if they don't 
        /// already exist.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="source">Path to the directory to copy.</param>
        /// <param name="destination">Path determining where the directory copy will be placed.</param>
        public static void Copy(string source, string destination)
        {
            DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(source);
            DirectoryInfo[] dirs = dir.GetDirectories();

            if (!dir.Exists)
            {
                throw new DirectoryNotFoundException(
                    "Source directory does not exist or could not be found: "
                    + source);
            }

            if (!Directory.Exists(destination))
                Directory.CreateDirectory(destination);

            FileInfo[] files = dir.GetFiles();
            foreach (FileInfo file in files)
            {
                string temppath = Path.Combine(destination, file.Name);
                file.CopyTo(temppath, false);
            }

            foreach (DirectoryInfo subdir in dirs)
            {
                string temppath = Path.Combine(destination, subdir.Name);
                Copy(subdir.FullName, temppath);
            }
        }
}

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