Copying folder over network

Question

I'm writing an app for copying files and folders over the network to a client computer. Everything else works just peachy. It's that I don't know how to go about the file copying - I looked at NSFileManager, but it seems that this would need the network drive mounted. My goal is to simulate something like Remote Desktop's Copy File dialog, very transparently. Any ideas/help?

EDIT: Looks like an SCP wrapper, or the SCP command with NSTask may help me. Still wondering how, though :[

Answer 1

It is a bit unclear if you want to know how to use NSTask, or use SCP in it.

But here is a simple example of using NSTask. Each argument for the command has to be put in an Array. so for example the command for

/bin/cp -R /Users/userName/Desktop/fooFolder/fooFile.foo /Users/suerName/Desktop/fooCopyToFolder

Would be done like this.

NSPipe *output;


        NSTask *task;
        task = [[NSTask alloc] init];



        NSString*   cpPath = @"/bin/cp";
        NSString* sourcePath =@"/Users/userName/Desktop/fooFolder/fooFile.foo";

       NSString* finalPath = @"/Users/suerName/Desktop/fooCopyToFolder";
        [task setLaunchPath:cpPath];



        [task setArguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"-R",sourcePath ,finalPath, nil]];
        output = [[NSPipe alloc] init];

        [task setStandardOutput:output];
        [task setStandardInput:[NSPipe pipe]];

        [task launch];
        [task waitUntilExit];

        int status = [task terminationStatus];

        if (status == 0)  {


            NSLog(@"task succeeded. %i",status);

        }   else {

            NSLog(@"task failed.%i",status);
            ;
        }