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Golang Create Copy of a file at another location

Example

package main
 
import (
	"io"
	"log"
	"os"
)
 
func main() {
 
	sourceFile, err := os.Open("/var/www/html/src/test.txt")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer sourceFile.Close()
 
	// Create new file
	newFile, err := os.Create("/var/www/html/test.txt")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer newFile.Close()
 
	bytesCopied, err := io.Copy(newFile, sourceFile)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	log.Printf("Copied %d bytes.", bytesCopied)
}

Output

2018/08/15 03:43:39 Copied 100 bytes.
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