C program to move a file to different location

Write a C program to move a file from one location to another.

  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <string.h>
  #define MAX 256

  int main() {
        int ch;
        FILE *fp1, *fp2;
        char source[MAX], target[MAX];

        /* get the source file name from the user */
        printf("Enter your source file name:");
        fgets(source, MAX, stdin);
        source[strlen(source) - 1] = '\0';

        /* get the destination file name from the user */
        printf("Enter your destination file name:");
        fgets(target, MAX, stdin);
        target[strlen(target) - 1] = '\0';

        /* open the source file in read mode */
        fp1 = fopen(source, "r");
        /* open the destination file in write mode */
        fp2 = fopen(target, "w");

        /* error handling */
        if (!fp1) {
                printf("Unable to open source file to read!!\n");
                fclose(fp2);
                return 0;
        }

        if (!fp2) {
                printf("Unable to open target file to write\n");
                return 0;
        }

        /* copying contents of source file to target file */

        while ((ch = fgetc(fp1)) != EOF) {

                fputc(ch, fp2);

        }

        /* closing the opened files */

        fclose(fp1);

        fclose(fp2);

        /* removing the source file */

        remove(source);

        return 0;

  }

  Output:

  jp@jp-VirtualBox:~/$ ls
  a.out   source.txt

  jp@jp-VirtualBox:~/$ cat source.txt 
  For loop
  While loop
  do while loop
  structure
  union
  Files
  Conditional statements

  jp@jp-VirtualBox:~/$ ./a.out
  Enter your source file name: source.txt
  Enter your destination file name: dest.txt

  jp@jp-VirtualBox:~/$ ls
  a.out  dest.txt 

  jp@jp-VirtualBox:~/$ cat dest.txt 
  For loop
  While loop
  do while loop
  structure
  union
  Files
  Conditional statements

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