In Java, we can use the NIO Files.setLastModifiedTime(path, FileTime) to update the last modified date or time of a file. Path path = Paths.get("/path/file"); LocalDate newLocalDate = LocalDate.of(1997, 12, 31); // year, month, dayOfMonth, hour, minute, second LocalDateTime newLocalDateTime = LocalDateTime.of(1999, 9, 30, 10, 30, 22); // convert LocalDateTime to Instant Instant instant = newLocalDateTime.toInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC); […]
This article shows how to use the following Java APIs to append text to the end of a file. Files.write – Append a single line to a file, Java 7. Files.write – Append multiple lines to a file, Java 7, Java 8. Files.writeString – Java 11. FileWriter FileOutputStream FileUtils – Apache Commons IO. In Java, […]
In Java (@since 1.7), we can use the NIO Files.readAttributes to get all the file metadata, including the file creation date. Path file = Paths.get(fileName); BasicFileAttributes attr = Files.readAttributes(file, BasicFileAttributes.class); System.out.println("creationTime: " + attr.creationTime()); // creationTime: 2020-07-20T09:29:54.627222Z 1. Files.readAttributes (NIO) This example uses Files.readAttributes to print the file creation date. GetCreationDate1.java package com.mkyong.io.howto; import java.io.IOException; […]
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.delete() or Files.deleteIfExists() to delete a temporary file, it works the same like delete a regular text file. // create a temporary file Path path = Files.createTempFile(null, ".log"); // delete Files.delete(path); // or if(Files.deleteIfExists(path)){ // success }else{ // file does not exist } 1. Delete Temporary File – […]
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 […]
In Java, we can use BufferedWriter to write content into a file. // jdk 7 try (FileWriter writer = new FileWriter("app.log"); BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(writer)) { bw.write(content); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.format("IOException: %s%n", e); } Note If possible, uses Files.write instead, one line, simple and nice. List<String> list = Arrays.asList("Line 1", "Line 2"); […]
The temporary file is just a regular file created on a predefined directory. In Java, we can use the NIO Files.write() to write data to a temporary file. // create a temporary file Path tempFile = Files.createTempFile(null, null); // Writes a string to the above temporary file Files.write(tempFile, "Hello World\n".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); // Append List<String> content = […]
In Java, for NIO Path, we can use path.toAbsolutePath() to get the file path; For legacy IO File, we can use file.getAbsolutePath() to get the file path. For symbolic links or file path contains . or .., we can use path.toRealPath() or file.getCanonicalPath() to get the real file pah. Below is the mapping of File […]
This article shows few Java examples to get the total number of lines in a file. The steps are similar: Open the file. Read line by line, and increases count + 1 each line. Close the file. Read the count. Test Java Methods: Files.lines BufferedReader LineNumberReader BufferedInputStream At the end of the article, we also […]
In Java, we can use Files.size(path) to get the size of a file in bytes. // size in bytes long bytes = Files.size(path); 1. Files.size (NIO) This example uses NIO Files.size(path) to print the size of an image file (140 kb). GetFileSize.java package com.mkyong.io.howto; import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Path; import java.nio.file.Paths; public class GetFileSize […]
In Java, we can use System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") to get the default temporary file location. For Windows, the default temporary folder is %USER%\AppData\Local\Temp For Linux, the default temporary folder is /tmp 1. java.io.tmpdir Run the below Java program on a Ubuntu Linux. TempFilePath1 package com.mkyong.io.temp; public class TempFilePath1 { public static void main(String[] args) { String tmpdir […]
In Java, there are many ways to create and write to a file. Files.newBufferedWriter (Java 8) Files.write (Java 7) PrintWriter File.createNewFile Note I prefer the Java 7 nio Files.write to create and write to a file, because it has much cleaner code and auto close the opened resources. Files.write( Paths.get(fileName), data.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); 1. Java 8 Files.newBufferedWriter […]
This article shows a few ways to save a byte[] into a file. For JDK 1.7 and above, the NIO Files.write is the simplest solution to save byte[] to a file. // bytes = byte[] Path path = Paths.get("/path/file"); Files.write(path, bytes); FileOutputStream is the best alternative. try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("/path/file")) { fos.write(bytes); //fos.close […]
In Java, we can use Files.readAllBytes(path) to convert a File object into a byte[]. import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Path; import java.nio.file.Paths; String filePath = "/path/to/file"; // file to byte[], Path byte[] bytes = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(filePath)); // file to byte[], File -> Path File file = new File(filePath); byte[] bytes = Files.readAllBytes(file.toPath()); P.S The NIO Files class is […]
In this tutorial, we will learn how to unzip a ZIP file using Java’s built-in java.util.zip package, while also discussing the Zip Slip vulnerability and how to avoid it. Table of Contents: 1. Extracting a ZIP File in Java 2. Understanding the Zip Slip Vulnerability What is Zip Slip? How to Prevent Zip Slip? Secure […]
Learn how to easily zip files and directories in Java using `java.util.zip`, `Files.copy`, and the Zip File System Provider.
This article shows how to Java 8 Files.walk to walk a file tree and stream operation filter to find files that match a specific file extension from a folder and its subfolders. // find files matched `png` file extension from folder C:\\test try (Stream<Path> walk = Files.walk(Paths.get("C:\\test"))) { result = walk .filter(p -> !Files.isDirectory(p)) // […]
In Java, we can use the javax.imageio.ImageIO class to read and write an image. 1. Read an image Read an image from a file. BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new File("c:\\test\\image.png")); Read an image from an URL. BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new URL("https://example.com/image.png")); 2. Write or save an image Write or save an image in different image formats. […]
In Java, serialVersionUID is something like version control, assure both serialized and deserialized objects are using the compatible class. For example, if an object saved into a file (Serialization) with serialVersionUID=1L, when we convert the file back to an object (Derialization), we must use the same serialVersionUID=1L, otherwise an InvalidClassException is thrown. Terminal Exception in […]
In Java, we can use Files.readAttributes() to get the file metadata or attribute, and then lastModifiedTime() to display the last modified date of a file. Path file = Paths.get("/home/mkyong/file.txt"); BasicFileAttributes attr = Files.readAttributes(file, BasicFileAttributes.class); System.out.println("lastModifiedTime: " + attr.lastModifiedTime()); 1. BasicFileAttributes (NIO) This example uses the java.nio.* to display the file attributes or metadata – creation […]
In Java, we can use System.getProperty("user.dir") to get the current working directory, the directory from where your program was launched. String dir = System.getProperty("user.dir"); // directory from where the program was launched // e.g /home/mkyong/projects/core-java/java-io System.out.println(dir); One of the good things about this system property user.dir is we can easily override the system property via […]
This example shows how to use ObjectInputStream to read a serialized object from a file in Java, aka Deserialization. public static Object readObjectFromFile(File file) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException { Object result = null; try (FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file); ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis)) { result = ois.readObject(); } return result; } // Convert byte[] to […]
This example shows how to use ObjectOutputStream to write objects to a file in Java, aka Serialization. public static void writeObjectToFile(Person obj, File file) throws IOException { try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file); ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos)) { oos.writeObject(obj); oos.flush(); } } Note More Java Serialization and Deserialization examples 1. Java object We can […]
In Java, we can use Files.exists(path) to test whether a file exists. The path can be a file or a directory. It is better to combine with !Files.isDirectory(path) to ensure the existing file is not a directory. Path path = Paths.get("/home/mkyong/test/test.log"); // file exists and it is not a directory if(Files.exists(path) && !Files.isDirectory(path)) { System.out.println("File […]
Below are some Java examples of converting InputStream to a File. Plain Java – FileOutputStream Apache Commons IO – FileUtils.copyInputStreamToFile Java 7 – Files.copy Java 9 – InputStream.transferTo 1. Plain Java – FileOutputStream This example downloads the google.com HTML page and returns it as an InputStream. And we use FileOutputStream to copy the InputStream into […]
This article shows two ways to resize an image (create a thumbnail) in Java. 1. Original Image, 544×184 Below is a Google logo image, width, height 544×184, and file size 14k. Later, we will resize the below image to a new width and height 300×150. 2. Resize an image or create a thumbnail. This Java […]
This article shows how to convert a byte[] to a BufferedImage in Java. InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes); BufferedImage bi = ImageIO.read(is); The idea is puts the byte[] into an ByteArrayInputStream object, and we can use ImageIO.read to convert it to a BufferedImage. 1. Convert byte[] to BufferedImage. The below example shows how to convert […]
In Java, the InputStreamReader accepts a charset to decode the byte streams into character streams. We can pass a StandardCharsets.UTF_8 into the InputStreamReader constructor to read data from a UTF-8 file. import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; //… try (FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file); InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, StandardCharsets.UTF_8); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(isr) ) { String str; […]
In Java, the OutputStreamWriter accepts a charset to encode the character streams into byte streams. We can pass a StandardCharsets.UTF_8 into the OutputStreamWriter constructor to write data to a UTF-8 file. try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file); OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, StandardCharsets.UTF_8); BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(osw)) { writer.append(line); } In Java 7+, many […]
In Java, we can use new String(bytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8) to convert a byte[] to a String. // string to byte[] byte[] bytes = "hello".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8); // byte[] to string String s = new String(bytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8); Table of contents 1. byte[] in text and binary data 2. Convert byte[] to String (text data) 3. Convert byte[] to String […]
In this article, we will show you how to use java.io.BufferedReader to read content from a file Note Read this different ways read a file 1. Files.newBufferedReader (Java 8) In Java 8, there is a new method Files.newBufferedReader(Paths.get(“file”)) to return a BufferedReader filename.txt A B C D E FileExample1.java package com.mkyong; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; […]
This article shows how to write data to a comma-separated values (CSV) file. Topics: OpenCSV – Write data to a CSV file Single class CSV writer – Write data to a CSV file Single class CSV writer – Unit Tests Note The RFC 4180 defines the format or definitions of a CSV file or text/csv […]
