I wrote a VERY simple program that copies all the bytes from a selected file and write them in a new/selected file.
What I want to do is duplicate 'elaborate' (encoded) file such .jpg, .png, .mp3, .exe and so on...
The program works fine (especially using simple .txt file), here is a running example:
(Wrote and compiled in windows using mingw):
C:\Users\Computer\Desktop>duplicate.exe img.jpg file.txt
Content of file.txt:
ÿØÿà JFIF ÿÛ C
If file.txt would have been substituted with <filename>.<new_file_extention>, the program would have create the new file and copied the above content inside as in:
C:\Users\Computer\Desktop>duplicate.exe img.jpg new_img.jpg
When I try to open new_img.jpg though the OS says me that the file is not supported hence cannot be opened.
My reasoning before writing the program was the following: "At bottom level any file is just a sequence of bytes, hence copying from an existing file and pasting onto a brand new/selected file will result in actually duplicating the file avoiding any type of encoding."
Here is the code:
//The program is just a test, is not a final version, hence the absence of some error handling.
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAXBYTE 2500
#define RDWRMAX 1024
int main(int argc, char **argv){
int ifd, ofd, n;
char buf[MAXBYTE+1];
if((ifd = open(*++argv, O_RDONLY, 0)) == -1){
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to open '%s'.\n", *argv);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
if((ofd = open(*++argv, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0)) == -1){
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to open '%s'.\n", *argv);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
while((n = read(ifd, buf, RDWRMAX)) > 0)
write(ofd, buf, n);
}
Can anyone help me understand why this is happening and maybe suggesting some possible way to solve it? This is a learning process for me, so thanks in advance for all the useful answers to this question.