C/C++ Copy file with automatic recursive folder/directory creation

Question

In Win32 API, there is CopyFile that literally copies a file. However, this API doesn\'t create folders. For example, I\'d like to copy C:\\Data\\output.txt to

Answer 1

SHFileOperation should do the trick. From MSDN:

Copy and Move operations can specify destination directories that do not exist. In those cases, the system attempts to create them and normally displays a dialog box to ask the user if they want to create the new directory. To suppress this dialog box and have the directories created silently, set the FOF_NOCONFIRMMKDIR flag in fFlags.