How do I check if a directory is not empty?

package org.kodejava.io;

import java.io.File;

public class EmptyDirCheck {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        File file = new File("D:/Downloads");

        // Check to see if the object represent a directory.
        if (file.isDirectory()) {
            // Get list of file in the directory. When its length is not zero
            // the folder is not empty.
            String[] files = file.list();

            if (files != null && files.length > 0) {
                System.out.println(file.getPath() + " is not empty!");
            }
        }
    }
}

How do I create a human-readable file size?

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 copy file?

This example demonstrates how to copy file using the Java IO library. Here we will use the java.io.FileInputStream and it’s tandem the java.io.FileOutputStream class.

package org.kodejava.io;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public class FileCopyDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Create an instance of source and destination files
        File source = new File("source.pdf");
        File destination = new File("target.pdf");

        try (FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(source);
             FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(destination)) {
            // Define the size of our buffer for buffering file data
            byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
            int read;
            while ((read = fis.read(buffer)) != -1) {
                fos.write(buffer, 0, read);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

How do I read file line by line using java.util.Scanner class?

Here is a compact way to read file line by line using the java.util.Scanner class.

package org.kodejava.util;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class ScannerReadFile {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Create an instance of File for data.txt file.
        File file = new File("README.md");
        try {
            // Create a new Scanner object which will read the data
            // from the file passed in. To check if there are more 
            // line to read from it, we call the scanner.hasNextLine() 
            // method. We then read line one by one till all lines 
            // is read.
            Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
            while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
                String line = scanner.nextLine();
                System.out.println(line);
            }
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

How do I create a directories recursively?

The code below use File.mkdirs() method to create a collection of directories recursively. It will create a directory with all its necessary parent directories.

package org.kodejava.io;

import java.io.File;

public class CreateDirs {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Define a deep directory structures and create all the
        // directories at once.
        String directories = "D:/kodejava/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i";
        File file = new File(directories);

        // The mkdirs will create folder including any necessary
        // but nonexistence parent directories. This method returns
        // true if and only if the directory was created along with
        // all necessary parent directories.
        boolean created = file.mkdirs();
        System.out.println("Directories created? " + created);
    }
}