I have a bunch of text files(say ss1.txt,ss2.txt,ss3.txt etc.) under a directory with my Java program (C:/Users/java/dir1
)?
I want to move my txt files to a new directory that hasn't been created yet. I have a String address for all of my files and I think I can turn them into Paths using
Path path = Paths.get(textPath);
Would creating a String (C:/Users/java/dir2
), turning that into a path using the above method and then using
Files.copy(C:/Users/java/dir1/ss1.txt,C:/Users/java/dir2)
result in ss1.text
being copied to a new directory?
Method Files. copy(C:/Users/java/dir1/ss1. txt,C:/Users/java/dir2) will not create directory, it will create file dir2 in directory java that will contain ss1. txt data.
File copying is a common file operation when we work with the Linux command-line. Usually, we'll use the cp command to copy files. However, the cp command won't work if the target directory doesn't exist.
copy() method in Python is used to copy the content of source file to destination file or directory.
The copy() method of java. nio. file. Files Class is used to copy bytes from a file to I/O streams or from I/O streams to a file. I/O Stream means an input source or output destination representing different types of sources e.g. disk files.
This is very easy with Files.createDirectories()
Path source = Path.of("c:/dir/dir-x/file.ext");
Path target = Path.of("c:/target-dir/dir-y/target-file.ext");
Files.createDirectories(target.getParent());
Files.copy(path, target, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
And do not worry if the directories already exist, in that case it will do nothing and keep going...
Method Files.copy(C:/Users/java/dir1/ss1.txt,C:/Users/java/dir2)
will not create directory, it will create file dir2 in directory java that will contain ss1.txt data.
You could try it with this code:
File sourceFile = new File( "C:/Users/java/dir1/ss1.txt" );
Path sourcePath = sourceFile.toPath();
File destFile = new File( "C:/Users/java/dir2" );
Path destPath = destFile.toPath();
Files.copy( sourcePath, destPath );
Remember use java.nio.file.Files and java.nio.file.Path.
If you want to use class form java.nio to copy files from one directory to other you should use Files.walkFileTree(...) method. You can see solution here Java: Using nio Files.copy to Move Directory.
Or you can simply use `FileUtils class from apache http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/ library, available since version 1.2.
File source = new File("C:/Users/java/dir1");
File dest = new File("C:/Users/java/dir2");
try {
FileUtils.copyDirectory(source, dest);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
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