📁 MCOPY

Console utility for coping files and folders in Windows

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🚀 Fast start

# Download 
git clone https://github.com/UnKnownHelp69/mcopy
cd mcopy
# Compile MinGW-w64
gcc mcopy.c cursor.c tools.c -o mcopy
# Compile MSVC
cl main.c cursor.c tools.c /Fe:mcopy.exe /O2 /W3
# add to pathset PATH=%PATH%;C:\path\to\mcopy

Commands

# Using
mcopy [flags] <source><destination># Copy file into folder
mcopy C:\photo.jpg D:\images
# Rewrite file
mcopy -r C:\file.txt D:\backup\copy.txt
# Copy folder to folder
mcopy D:\projects E:\backup
# Rewrite all files
mcopy -F C:\work D:\work_backup

🏷️ Flags

Flag	Defenition	Example
-r	Replace existing files Overwrites files with the same name	mcopy -r file.txt D:\
-R	Replace existing folders Deletes the folder before copying	mcopy -R folder D:\
-A	Add to existing folders Copies new files without replacing existing ones	mcopy -A folder D:\
-F	Force flag Ignore all = -r + -R	mcopy -F source D:\

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💡 Combinig

# Several flags together are acceptable
mcopy -r -A C:\projects D:\backup
mcopy -R -r D:\data E:\archive
mcopy -F C:\work D:\work_backup

🔢 Error codes

Code	Enum	Defenition
1	fileAccessError	There is no access to an existing file
2	readFileError	Reading error
3	writeFileError	Writing error
4	deleteFileError	Couldn't delete the file
5	getFileSizeError	Couldn't get the size
6	copyFiletoFileByValidPathesError	Error copying by valid paths
7	copyFileToFileError	Error copying a file to a file
8	getNameFileError	Couldn't get the file name
9	makeNewPathBySourcePathAndDestPathError	Error forming the destination path
10	copyFileToFolderError	Error copying a file to a folder
11	mallocError	Insufficient memory
12	getFolderSizeError	Couldn't get folder size
13	createFolderIfNotExistError	Folder creation error
14	checkSubFolderError	Error checking the nesting
15	copyFolderToFolderError	Error copying folder to folder
16	readSizeError	File size reading error
17	differentSizeOfCopiedFilesError	The size of the original and the copy do not match
18	inputError	Invalid command line arguments
19	undefinedError	Unknown error
20	deletFullFolderError	Error deleting a folder completely
21	infRecursionError	Trying to copy a folder to itself
22	deleteFolderError	Empty folder deletion error