In Java, we can use Files.size to get the size of a file; for the directory or folder size, we need to count the size of a directory recursively (sum of the Files.size of all files). This example shows a few common ways to get the size of a directory or folder. FileVisitor (Java 7) […]
This article shows a few ways to convert an java.io.InputStream to a String. Table of contents 1. ByteArrayOutputStream 2. InputStream#readAllBytes (Java 9) 3. InputStreamReader + StringBuilder 4. InputStreamReader + BufferedReader (modified line breaks) 5. Java 8 BufferedReader#lines (modified line breaks) 6. Apache Commons IO 7. Download Source Code 8. References What are modified line breaks? […]
If we use the NIO Files.delete to delete a non-empty directory in Java, it throws DirectoryNotEmptyException; for legacy IO File.delete to delete a non-empty directory, it returns a false. The standard solution is to loop the directory recursively, and delete all its children’s contents first (sub-files or sub-directories), and delete the parent later. This example […]
This article shows four ways to copy a file in Java. Files.copy (NIO) Apache Commons IO Guava Plain Java In Java 7+, the NIO Files.copy is the simplest way to copy a file, because it is a built-in API. Before Java 7, the Apache Commons IO FileUtils.copyFile is a preferable solution because the legacy IO […]
In Java, we can use the NIO Files.move(source, target) to rename or move a file. import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Path; import java.nio.file.Paths; //… Path source = Paths.get("/home/mkyong/newfolder/test1.txt"); Path target = Paths.get("/home/mkyong/newfolder/test2.txt"); try{ Files.move(source, target); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } 1. Rename a file in the same directory. 1.1 This example renames a […]
