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Usher
Usher

Reputation: 2146

Efficient way to get the file list and copy to local directory?

I was trying to get the list of files in my remote directory and check only the file has name "test"; then copy to my local directory.

Just did a simple thing here but can someone please let me know the best way to handle this scenario.

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var getfiles = new fileshare.Program();
        string[] filteredfiles =getfiles.GetFileList();

        bool b;
        foreach (string file in filteredfiles)
        { 
            if(b=file.Contains("test"))
            {
                getfiles.copytolocal(file);
            }

        }

    }

    private string[] GetFileList()
    {
        string[] filepaths = Directory.GetFiles(@"\\testserver\dev");
        return filepaths;
    }
    private void copytolocal(string filename)
    {
        File.Copy(filename, @"C:\" + filename);
    }
}

Even i just stuck up when i was copy the file,the filename contains the whole directory inside the filename so filename look like "\\testserver\dev\test.txt". So it failed to copy in to local.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2480

Answers (2)

BrokenGlass
BrokenGlass

Reputation: 160962

You can use DirectoryInfo to filter down to any file that contains the string "test":

private FileInfo[] GetFileList(string pattern)
{ 
    var di = new DirectoryInfo(@"\\testserver\dev");
    return di.GetFiles(pattern);
}

and then:

 foreach (var file in GetFileList("*test*"))
 { 
     getfiles.copytolocal(file.FullName);
 }

Upvotes: 1

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 887827

You're looking for Path.GetFileName() (which returns a string).

Upvotes: 1

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