How do I sort files based on their last modified date?

By Wayan in Apache Commons, Commons IO 0 Comment

This example demonstrates how to use Apache Commons IO LastModifiedFileComparator class to sort files based on their last modified date in ascending and descending order. There are two comparators defined in this class, the LASTMODIFIED_COMPARATOR and the LASTMODIFIED_REVERSE.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import static org.apache.commons.io.comparator.LastModifiedFileComparator.*;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class FileSortLastModified {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        File dir = new File(System.getProperty("user.home"));
        File[] files = dir.listFiles();

        if (files != null) {
            // Sort files in ascending order based on file's last
            // modification date.
            System.out.println("Ascending order.");
            Arrays.sort(files, LASTMODIFIED_COMPARATOR);
            FileSortLastModified.displayFileOrder(files);

            System.out.println("------------------------------------");

            // Sort files in descending order based on file's last
            // modification date.
            System.out.println("Descending order.");
            Arrays.sort(files, LASTMODIFIED_REVERSE);
            FileSortLastModified.displayFileOrder(files);
        }
    }

    private static void displayFileOrder(File[] files) {
        for (File file : files) {
            System.out.printf("%2$td/%2$tm/%2$tY - %s%n", file.getName(),
                    file.lastModified());
        }
    }
}

Here are the example results produced by the code snippet:

Ascending order.
15/12/2020 - ntuser.dat.LOG1
15/12/2020 - ntuser.ini
15/12/2020 - .m2
18/12/2020 - Contacts
22/12/2020 - Videos
01/01/2021 - VirtualBox VMs
02/01/2021 - Desktop
02/01/2021 - Documents
------------------------------------------
Descending order.
02/01/2021 - Documents
02/01/2021 - Desktop
01/01/2021 - VirtualBox VMs
22/12/20202 - Videos
18/12/20202 - Contacts
15/12/20202 - .m2
15/12/20202 - ntuser.ini
15/12/20202 - ntuser.dat.LOG1

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

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How do I search for files recursively using Apache Commons IO?

By Wayan in Apache Commons, Commons IO 0 Comment

This example demonstrates how we can use the FileUtils class listFiles() method to search for a file specified by their extensions. We can also define to find the file recursively deep down into the subdirectories.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Collection;

public class SearchFileRecursive {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        File root = new File("F:/Wayan/Kodejava/kodejava-example");

        try {
            String[] extensions = {"xml", "java", "dat"};

            // Find files within a root directory and optionally its
            // subdirectories, which match an array of extensions. When the
            // extensions are null, all files will be returned.
            //
            // This method will return matched file as java.io.File
            Collection<File> files = FileUtils.listFiles(root, extensions, true);

            for (File file : files) {
                System.out.println("File = " + file.getAbsolutePath());
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

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How do I touch a file using Apache Commons IO?

By Wayan in Apache Commons, Commons IO 0 Comment

This example demonstrates a touch command just like Unix touch command. If the file to be touched doesn’t exist, a new empty file will be created.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class TouchFileExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            File file = new File("Touch.dat");

            // Touch the file. When the file does not exist, a new file will be
            // created. If the file exists, change the file timestamp.
            FileUtils.touch(file);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

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How do I delete directory recursively?

By Wayan in Apache Commons, Commons IO 0 Comment

Using the FileUtils.deleteDirectory() from the Apache Commons IO library, we can simplify the process of deleting directory and everything below it recursively.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class DeleteDirectory {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            File directory = new File("F:/Temp");

            // Deletes a directory recursively. When a deletion process is failed, an
            // IOException will be thrown; that's why we catch the exception.
            FileUtils.deleteDirectory(directory);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

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How do I create a human-readable file size?

By Wayan in Apache Commons, Commons IO 0 Comment

This example demonstrates how to create a human-readable file size using the FileUtils class of the Apache Commons IO library. The byteCountToDisplaySize() method take the file size in bytes and return a human-readable display of the file size in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, etc.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;

public class ReadableFileSize {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        File file = new File("D:/Downloads/jdk-17_windows-x64_bin.exe");

        long size = file.length();
        String display = FileUtils.byteCountToDisplaySize(size);

        System.out.println("Name    = " + file.getName());
        System.out.println("Size    = " + size);
        System.out.println("Display = " + display);
    }
}

Here are the results of our program:

Name    = jdk-17_windows-x64_bin.exe
Size    = 159373640
Display = 151 MB

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

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How do I create a copy of a file?

By Wayan in Apache Commons, Commons IO 0 Comment

This example shows how we can use the Apache Commons IO library to simplify a file copy process.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class FileCopyExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // The source file name to be copied.
        File source = new File("README.md");

        // The target file name to which the source file will be copied.
        File target = new File("README-BACKUP.md");

        // A temporary directory where we are going to copy the source file to.
        // Here we use the temporary directory of the operating system, which 
        // can be obtained using java.io.tmpdir property.
        File targetDir = new File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"));

        try {
            // Using FileUtils.copyFile() method to copy a file.
            System.out.println("Copying " + source + " file to " + target);
            FileUtils.copyFile(source, target);

            // To copy a file to a specified directory, we can use the
            // FileUtils.copyFileToDirectory() method.
            System.out.println("Copying " + source + " file to " + targetDir);
            FileUtils.copyFileToDirectory(source, targetDir);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // Errors will be reported here if any error occurs during 
            // copying the file
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

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How do I write string data to file?

By Wayan in Apache Commons, Commons IO 0 Comment

The following code snippet shows you how to write strings of data into a file using the Apache Commons IO library. We can use the FileUtils.writeStringToFile() method to do it. This method accepts the file object where the data will be stored, the data itself, and the encoding.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class WriteToFileExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            // Here we'll write our data into a file called
            // output.txt; this is the output.
            File file = new File("output.txt");
            // We'll write the string below into the file
            String data = "Learn Java by Examples";

            // To write a file called the writeStringToFile
            // method which requires you to pass the file and
            // the data to be written.
            FileUtils.writeStringToFile(file, data, "UTF-8");
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

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How do I calculate directory size?

By Wayan in Apache Commons, Commons IO 0 Comment

In this example, we are going to use the Apache Commons IO library to get or calculate the total size of a directory. The FileUtils class provided by the Commons IO can help us to achieve this goal.

The first method that we can use is the FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory(), it calculates the size of a directory recursively. It takes a File object that represent a directory as parameter and returns long value. If the directory has security restriction this method return 0. A negative value returned when the directory size if bigger than Long.MAX_VALUE.

You can also use the FileUtils.sizeOfDirectoryAsBigInteger() method. This method returns the result as BigInteger as the method name describe. As the first method, this method also return 0 when the directory has a security restriction.

Both of the methods described above return the directory size in byte. If you want a more human-readable size you can utilize the FileUtils.byteCountToDisplaySize() method, it will convert the byte value into something like 1 MB, 1 GB.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.math.BigInteger;

public class DirectorySizeSample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // sizeOfDirectory
        File tempDir = new File("/Users/wayan/Temp");
        long size = FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory(tempDir);
        System.out.println("TempDir size = " + size + " bytes");
        System.out.println("TempDir size = " +
                FileUtils.byteCountToDisplaySize(size));

        // sizeOfDirectoryAsBigInteger()
        File dropboxDir = new File("/Users/wayan/Dropbox");
        BigInteger sizeBig = FileUtils.sizeOfDirectoryAsBigInteger(dropboxDir);
        System.out.println("DropboxDir size = " + sizeBig);
        System.out.println("DropboxDir size = " +
                FileUtils.byteCountToDisplaySize(sizeBig));
    }
}

The result of the code snippet above:

TempDir size = 514239345 bytes
TempDir size = 490 MB
DropboxDir size = 6184
DropboxDir size = 6 KB

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

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How do I read text file content line by line to a List of Strings using Commons IO?

By Wayan in Apache Commons, Commons IO 2 Comments

The following example show how to use the Apache Commons IO library to read a text file line by line to a List of String. In the code snippet below we will read the contents of a file called sample.txt using FileUtils class. We use FileUtils.readLines() method to read the contents line by line and return the result as a List of Strings.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

public class ReadFileToListSample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Create a file object of sample.txt
        File file = new File("README.md");

        try {
            List<String> contents = FileUtils.readLines(file, "UTF-8");

            // Iterate the result to print each line of the file.
            for (String line : contents) {
                System.out.println(line);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

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How do I read file contents to string using Commons IO?

By Wayan in Apache Commons, Commons IO 0 Comment

In this example we use FileUtils class from Apache Commons IO to read the content of a file. FileUtils have two static methods called readFileToString(File) and readFileToString(File, String) that we can use.

An example to read file contents and return the result as a string can be seen below.

package org.kodejava.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ReadFileToStringSample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Here we create an instance of File for sample.txt file.
        File file = new File("sample.txt");

        try {
            // Read the entire contents of sample.txt
            String content = FileUtils.readFileToString(file, "UTF-8");
            System.out.println("File content: " + content);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Maven Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
    <version>2.14.0</version>
</dependency>

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