List All Files And Direcories In A Direcoty

In this tutorial you will learn about searching file and open it for edit in java

List All Files And Direcories In A Direcoty

In the application given below you will listFiles() method is used to list all the file and direcories in the given directories. This method returns the ArrayList of File object

We have used isFile() and isDirectory() methods of File class that returns the boolean value. It is generally used befor any operation on file or dirctory.

Please consider the example given below

SearchFileAndDirectories.java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class SearchFileAndDirectories {
	public static void main(String[] args) {

		String path = "";
		System.out.println("Please Enter the path");
		try {
			BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
					System.in));
			path = br.readLine();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		String fileName, directoryName;

		File searchInDirectory = new File(path);
		File[] listOfFiles = searchInDirectory.listFiles();
		File[] listOfDirectories = searchInDirectory.listFiles();

		System.out.println("********************************************");
		System.out.println("List Of All File in " + path);
		System.out.println("********************************************\n");
		for (File file : listOfFiles) {
			if (file.isFile()) {
				fileName = file.getName();
				System.out.println(fileName);
			}
		}

		System.out.println("********************************************");
		System.out.println("List Of All Directory in " + path);
		System.out.println("********************************************\n");
		for (File file : listOfFiles) {
			if (file.isDirectory()) {
				fileName = file.getName();
				System.out.println(fileName);
			}
		}
	}
}

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