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How to format FileTime in Java

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In Java, we can use DateTimeFormatter to convert the FileTime to other custom date formats. public static String formatDateTime(FileTime fileTime) { LocalDateTime localDateTime = fileTime .toInstant() .atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()) .toLocalDateTime(); return localDateTime.format( DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss")); } 1. File Last Modified Time This example displays the last modified time of a file in a custom date format. GetLastModifiedTime.java package …

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How to get file path separator in Java

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For file path or directory separator, the Unix system introduced the slash character / as directory separator, and the Microsoft Windows introduced backslash character \ as the directory separator. In a nutshell, this is / on UNIX and \ on Windows. In Java, we can use the following three methods to get the platform-independent file …

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Java Serialization and Deserialization Examples

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In Java, Serialization means converting Java objects into a byte stream; Deserialization means converting the serialized object’s byte stream back to the original Java object. Table of contents. 1. Hello World Java Serialization 2. java.io.NotSerializableException 3. What is serialVersionUID? 4. What is transient? 5. Serialize Object to File 6. Why need Serialization in Java? 7. …

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Java – How to lock a file before writing

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In Java, we can combine RandomAccessFile and FileChannel to lock a file before writing. LockFileAndWrite.java package com.mkyong; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.RandomAccessFile; import java.nio.channels.FileLock; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class LockFileAndWrite { public static void main(String[] args) { writeFileWithLock(new File("D:\\server.log"), "mkyong"); } public static void writeFileWithLock(File file, String content) { // auto close and release the …

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Java – How to read last few lines of a File

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In Java, we can use the Apache Commons IO ReversedLinesFileReader to read the last few lines of a File. pom.xml <dependency> <groupId>commons-io</groupId> <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId> <version>2.6</version> </dependency> 1. Test Data A server log file sample d:\\server.log a b c d 1 2 3 4 5 2. Read Last Line 2.1 Read the last 3 lines of a …

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How to read a file in Java

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This article focus on a few of the commonly used methods to read a file in Java. Files.lines, return a Stream (Java 8) Files.readString, returns a String (Java 11), max file size 2G. Files.readAllBytes, returns a byte[] (Java 7), max file size 2G. Files.readAllLines, returns a List<String> (Java 8) BufferedReader, a classic old friend (Java …

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Java Files.readAllBytes example

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In Java, we can use Files.readAllBytes to read a file. byte[] content = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("app.log")); System.out.println(new String(content)); 1. Text File A Java example to write and read a normal text file. FileExample1.java package com.mkyong.calculator; import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.charset.Charset; import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Paths; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.List; public class FileExample1 { public static void main(String[] …

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Java – How to list all files in a directory?

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Two Java examples to show you how to list files in a directory : For Java 8, Files.walk Before Java 8, create a recursive loop to list all files. 1. Files.walk 1.1 List all files. try (Stream<Path> walk = Files.walk(Paths.get("C:\\projects"))) { List<String> result = walk.filter(Files::isRegularFile) .map(x -> x.toString()).collect(Collectors.toList()); result.forEach(System.out::println); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); …

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Python – How to read a file into a list?

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Python example to read a log file, line by line into a list. # With ‘\n’, [‘1\n’, ‘2\n’, ‘3’] with open(‘/www/logs/server.log’) as f: content = f.readlines() # No ‘\n’, [‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’] with open(‘/www/logs/server.log’) as f: content = f.read().splitlines() 1. Read File -> List 1.1 A dummy log file. d:\\server.log a b c d 1 …

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Python – How to check if a file exists

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In Python, we can use os.path.isfile() or pathlib.Path.is_file() (Python 3.4) to check if a file exists. 1. pathlib New in Python 3.4 from pathlib import Path fname = Path("c:\\test\\abc.txt") print(fname.exists()) # true print(fname.is_file()) # true print(fname.is_dir()) # false dir = Path("c:\\test\\") print(dir.exists()) # true print(dir.is_file()) # false print(dir.is_dir()) # true If check from pathlib import …

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How to get free disk space in Java

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In Java old days, it lacks of method to determine the free disk space on a partition. But this is changed since JDK 1.6 released, a few new methods – getTotalSpace(), getUsableSpace() and getFreeSpace(), are bundled with java.io.File to retrieve the partition or disk space detail. Example package com.mkyong; import java.io.File; public class DiskSpaceDetail { …

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How to make a file read only in Java

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A Java program to demonstrate the use of java.io.File setReadOnly() method to make a file read only. Since JDK 1.6, a new setWritable() method is provided to make a file to be writable again. Example package com.mkyong; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; public class FileReadAttribute { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { File file …

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How to check if a file is hidden in Java

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A Java program to demonstrate the use of java.io.File isHidden() to check if a file is hidden. package com.mkyong; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; public class FileHidden { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { File file = new File("c:/hidden-file.txt"); if(file.isHidden()){ System.out.println("This file is hidden"); }else{ System.out.println("This file is not hidden"); } } } Note …

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How to copy directory in Java

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In Java, we can use the Java 1.7 FileVisitor or Apache Commons IO FileUtils.copyDirectory to copy a directory, which includes its sub-directories and files. This article shows a few of the common ways to copy a directory in Java. FileVisitor (Java 7+) FileUtils.copyDirectory (Apache commons-io) Custom Copy using Java 7 NIO and Java 8 Stream. …

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How to check if directory is empty in Java

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Here’s an example to check if a directory is empty. Example package com.mkyong.file; import java.io.File; public class CheckEmptyDirectoryExample { public static void main(String[] args) { File file = new File("C:\\folder"); if(file.isDirectory()){ if(file.list().length>0){ System.out.println("Directory is not empty!"); }else{ System.out.println("Directory is empty!"); } }else{ System.out.println("This is not a directory"); } } }

How to create a temporary file in Java

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In Java, we can use the following two Files.createTempFile() methods to create a temporary file in the default temporary-file directory. Path createTempFile(Path dir, String prefix, String suffix, FileAttribute<?>… attrs) throws IOException Path createTempFile(String prefix, String suffix, FileAttribute<?>… attrs) throws IOException The default temporary file folder is vary on operating system. Windows – %USER%\AppData\Local\Temp Linux – …

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How to get file creation date in Java

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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; …

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How to delete a temporary file in Java

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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 – …

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How to delete a file in Java

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In Java, we can use the NIO Files.delete(Path) and Files.deleteIfExists(Path) to delete a file. 1. Delete a file with Java NIO 1.1 The Files.delete(Path) deletes a file, returns nothing, or throws an exception if it fails. DeleteFile1.java package com.mkyong.io.file; import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Paths; public class DeleteFile1 { public static void main(String[] args) { …

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How to write to file in Java – BufferedWriter

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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"); …

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How to write data to a temporary file in Java

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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 = …

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How to construct a file path in Java

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In this tutorial, we will show you three Java examples to construct a file path : File.separator or System.getProperty(“file.separator”) (Recommended) File file = new File(workingDir, filename); (Recommended) Create the file separator manually. (Not recommend, just for fun) 1. File.separator Classic Java example to construct a file path, using File.separator or System.getProperty(“file.separator”). Both will check the …

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How to get file size in Java

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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 …

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How to get the temporary file path in Java

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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 …

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How to write to file in Java – FileOutputStream

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In Java, FileOutputStream is a bytes stream class that’s used to handle raw binary data. To write the data to file, you have to convert the data into bytes and save it to file. See below full example. package com.mkyong.io; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; public class WriteFileExample { public static void main(String[] args) …

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How to set the file permission in Java

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In Java, file permissions are very OS specific: *nix , NTFS (windows) and FAT/FAT32, all have different kind of file permissions. Java comes with some generic file permission to deal with it. Check if the file permission allow : file.canExecute(); – return true, file is executable; false is not. file.canWrite(); – return true, file is …

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How to create a file in Java

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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 …

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How to list out all system drives in your system

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File.listRoots() will list out all the available file system roots / drives in your current system. Example package com.mkyong.io; import java.io.File; public class App{ public static void main (String args[]) { File[] rootDrive = File.listRoots(); for(File sysDrive : rootDrive){ System.out.println("Drive : " + sysDrive); } } } Output Drive : A:\ Drive : C:\ Drive …

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How to assign file content into a variable in Java

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Most people will read the file content and assign to StringBuffer or String line by line. Here’s another trick that may interest you – how to assign whole file content into a variable with one Java’s statement, try it 🙂 Example In this example, you will use DataInputStreamto convert all the content into bytes, and …

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How to traverse a directory structure in Java

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In this example, the program will traverse the given directory and print out all the directories and files absolute path and name one by one. Example package com.mkyong.io; import java.io.File; public class DisplayDirectoryAndFile{ public static void main (String args[]) { displayIt(new File("C:\\Downloads")); } public static void displayIt(File node){ System.out.println(node.getAbsoluteFile()); if(node.isDirectory()){ String[] subNote = node.list(); for(String …

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How to open a PDF file in Java

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In this article, we show you two ways to open a PDF file with Java. 1. rundll32 – Windows Platform Solution In Windows, you can use “rundll32” command to launch a PDF file, see example : package com.mkyong.jdbc; import java.io.File; //Windows solution to view a PDF file public class WindowsPlatformAppPDF { public static void main(String[] …

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How to read an object from file in Java (ObjectInputStream)

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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 …

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How to write an object to file in Java (ObjectOutputStream)

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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 …

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How to delete files with certain extension only

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In Java, you can implements the FilenameFilter, override the accept(File dir, String name) method, to perform the file filtering function. In this example, we show you how to use FilenameFilter to list out all files that are end with “.txt” extension in folder “c:\\folder“, and then delete it. package com.mkyong.io; import java.io.*; public class FileChecker …

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How to check if a file exists in Java

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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 …

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