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Asked: 2026-05-15T09:12:07+00:00

Hello! I am updating some C code that copys files with a certain name.

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Hello! I am updating some C code that copys files with a certain name. basically, I have a directory with a bunch of files named like so:

AAAAA.1.XYZ
AAAAA.2.ZYX
AAAAA.3.YZX
BBBBB.1.XYZ
BBBBB.2.ZYX

Now, In the old code, they just used a call to ShellExecute and used xcopy.exe. to get all the files starting with AAAAA, they just gave xcopy the name of the file as AAAAA.* and it knew to copy all of the files starting with AAAAA. now, im trying to get it to copy with out having to use the command line, and I am running into trouble. I was hoping CopyFile would be smart enough to handle AAAAA.* as the file to be copied, but it doesnt at all do what xcopy did. So, any Ideas on how to do this without the external call to xcopy.exe?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could also use SHFileOperation or IFileOperation (the latter being only available from Vista upwards but is now the recommended way according to MSDN). SHFileOperation supports wildcards and displays a progress by default, but there’s also a flag for silent operation.

    Check out the following MSDN links for more info:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762164(v=VS.85).aspx

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb775771(v=VS.85).aspx

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