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list all files in the folder and also sub folders [duplicate]

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Using you current code, make this tweak:

public void listf(String directoryName, List<File> files) {
    File directory = new File(directoryName);

    // Get all files from a directory.
    File[] fList = directory.listFiles();
    if(fList != null)
        for (File file : fList) {      
            if (file.isFile()) {
                files.add(file);
            } else if (file.isDirectory()) {
                listf(file.getAbsolutePath(), files);
            }
        }
}

Use FileUtils from Apache commons.

listFiles

public static Collection<File> listFiles(File directory,
                                         String[] extensions,
                                         boolean recursive)
Finds files within a given directory (and optionally its subdirectories) which match an array of extensions.
Parameters:
directory - the directory to search in
extensions - an array of extensions, ex. {"java","xml"}. If this parameter is null, all files are returned.
recursive - if true all subdirectories are searched as well
Returns:
an collection of java.io.File with the matching files

You can return a List instead of an array and things gets much simpler.

    public static List<File> listf(String directoryName) {
        File directory = new File(directoryName);

        List<File> resultList = new ArrayList<File>();

        // get all the files from a directory
        File[] fList = directory.listFiles();
        resultList.addAll(Arrays.asList(fList));
        for (File file : fList) {
            if (file.isFile()) {
                System.out.println(file.getAbsolutePath());
            } else if (file.isDirectory()) {
                resultList.addAll(listf(file.getAbsolutePath()));
            }
        }
        //System.out.println(fList);
        return resultList;
    }