Copying, moving, and deleting directories

For deleting and moving a directory and its contents, both Directory and DirectoryInfo contain the following methods shown in Table 18.4.

Table 18.4. Methods to use for performing common directory operations
Function	`System.IO.DirectoryInfo`	`System.IO.Directory`
Copying a directory	No method	No method
Moving a directory	`MoveTo(string destination_path)`	`Move(string source_path, string destination_path)`
Deleting a directory	`Delete()`	`Delete(string path)`

Note that there is no method for copying a whole directory and its contents. You will have to perform manual copying of each file within.

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