Copying and Pasting Directories and Files

This script presents a few basic fuctions that allow someone to copy a directory (along with its files and sub-directories) and paste it somewhere else. They ignore links and anything else that is not a directory or a file. The data returned from copy_dir() is in a format that paste_dir() can understand.

A design note: what you get back from copy_dir() may be different whether or not you have a path separator at the end of the path; paste_dir() makes use of that feature (whether or not you want the first folder to be created). The functions can easily be modified to not include sub-directories in the returned package, and errors caused by accessing to files or directories can also be ignored with some simple editting.

Also, note the asserts in the functions; these functions are designed to crash hard so that the calling code has to take care of the errors.