How to use Windows command-line commands in code

[manontheedge]

In Windows, if you open a command prompt, there are a bunch of keywords like, 'chdir', 'copy', ...

What I'm trying to figure out is how to use that COPY command in c++ code. I want to use the COPY command with the options (/a, /b, ...).

How do I do this?

Every time I search for this on Google, the results are no where close to what I'm looking for. Any help is appreciated.

[weaknessforcats]

Can you not just call system()?

[manontheedge]

Ugh, yeah, that would be what I'm looking for. I apparently was trying to complicate things. Thank you.

[Banfa]

Of course you could always call the WIN32 API function CopyFile.

I personally would consider calling system to run a command that had a WIN32 API equivalent poor practice.