Copying files using C# and dos command

Question

I want to include batch file into a main file.

//contents of copy.bat

copy *.txt Output.txt

Is there any direct solution using c#. Following code generates no error at the cost of no output.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;


namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\mydir\copy.bat");

        }
    }
}

Just a note : simply renaming some .txt file to .xls will not make it valid Excel file — Dimitar Tsonev, Nov 18 '15 at 12:10
How can someone who's been here for 4 years and with decent rep say "I don't know anything about C# so can you write all the code for me?". Aaaand... it's been edited out. — Equalsk, Nov 18 '15 at 12:12
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Your example does not follow my guideline. You don't have to invoke a *.bat file from C#. Just use C#'s build in APIs. I recommend you doing a basic C# course first ;-) — Fabe, Nov 18 '15 at 15:07

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

C#

First you can read all files into a string: how to read all files inside particular folder
- Then use StringBuilder to add the header to the file's content
- Use File.WriteAllText to save it to the file sysem as currentdate.xls

Since you a learning, I won't give you a complete sample. It would just kill the learning effect. Problem with the approach is, that you load all contents in memory, which is limited. Just take a look at Streams, if you want to handle the task more efficiently (could be your exercise 2).

.bat

Batch files are really not suitable for such a task. Take a look at PowerShell, if you want to do this as administrative task.

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Copying files using C# and dos command

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C#

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