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M.J.
M.J.

Reputation: 16646

How can I read all files in a folder from Java?

How can I read all the files in a folder through Java? It doesn't matter which API.

Upvotes: 795

Views: 1467165

Answers (30)

andrej
andrej

Reputation: 4743

A nice usage of java.io.FileFilter, as seen in Java - get the newest file in a directory?:

File fl = new File(dir);
File[] files = fl.listFiles(new FileFilter() {          
    public boolean accept(File file) {
        return file.isFile();
    }
});

Upvotes: 4

Adrien Hadj-Salah
Adrien Hadj-Salah

Reputation: 206

If you want more options, you can use this function which aims to populate an arraylist of files present in a folder. Options are: recursivity and the pattern to match.

public static ArrayList<File> listFilesForFolder(final File folder,
        final boolean recursivity,
        final String patternFileFilter) {

    // Inputs
    boolean filteredFile = false;

    // Output
    final ArrayList<File> output = new ArrayList<File> ();

    // Foreach elements
    for (final File fileEntry : folder.listFiles()) {

        // If this element is a directory, do it recursively
        if (fileEntry.isDirectory()) {
            if (recursivity) {
                output.addAll(listFilesForFolder(fileEntry, recursivity, patternFileFilter));
            }
        }
        else {
            // If there isn't any pattern, the file is correct
            if (patternFileFilter.length() == 0) {
                filteredFile = true;
            }
            // Otherwise, we need to filter by pattern
            else {
                filteredFile = Pattern.matches(patternFileFilter, fileEntry.getName());
            }

            // If the file has a name which match with the pattern, then add it to the list
            if (filteredFile) {
                output.add(fileEntry);
            }
        }
    }

    return output;
}

Upvotes: 5

rich
rich

Reputation: 19405

Use:

public void listFilesForFolder(final File folder) {
    for (final File fileEntry : folder.listFiles()) {
        if (fileEntry.isDirectory()) {
            listFilesForFolder(fileEntry);
        } else {
            System.out.println(fileEntry.getName());
        }
    }
}

final File folder = new File("/home/you/Desktop");
listFilesForFolder(folder);

The Files.walk API is available from Java 8.

try (Stream<Path> paths = Files.walk(Paths.get("/home/you/Desktop"))) {
    paths
        .filter(Files::isRegularFile)
        .forEach(System.out::println);
}

The example uses the try-with-resources pattern recommended in the API guide. It ensures that no matter circumstances, the stream will be closed.

Upvotes: 1145

Nadav Ruskin
Nadav Ruskin

Reputation: 192

Here's a short one for getting a list of files in a directory:

        File directory = new File("path");
        File[] files = directory.listFiles(File::isFile);

Upvotes: 2

Collin
Collin

Reputation: 444

A one liner using .map to get all the filenames in yourDirectory:

List<String> files = Files.list(Paths.get(yourDirectory)).map(path -> path.getFileName().toFile().getName()).collect(Collectors.toList());

Upvotes: 2

seunggabi
seunggabi

Reputation: 1822

public static List<File> files(String dirname) {
    if (dirname == null) {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }

    File dir = new File(dirname);
    if (!dir.exists()) {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }

    if (!dir.isDirectory()) {
        return Collections.singletonList(file(dirname));
    }

    return Arrays.stream(Objects.requireNonNull(dir.listFiles()))
        .collect(Collectors.toList());
}

Upvotes: 0

Vishal Vijayan
Vishal Vijayan

Reputation: 318

We can use org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils, use listFiles() mehtod to read all the files in a given folder.

eg:

FileUtils.listFiles(directory, new String[] {"ext1", "ext2"}, true)

This read all the files in the given directory with given extensions, we can pass multiple extensions in the array and read recursively within the folder(true parameter).

Upvotes: 1

Mark Spangler
Mark Spangler

Reputation: 4856

In Java 7 and higher you can use listdir

Path dir = ...;
try (DirectoryStream<Path> stream = Files.newDirectoryStream(dir)) {
    for (Path file: stream) {
        System.out.println(file.getFileName());
    }
} catch (IOException | DirectoryIteratorException x) {
    // IOException can never be thrown by the iteration.
    // In this snippet, it can only be thrown by newDirectoryStream.
    System.err.println(x);
}

You can also create a filter that can then be passed into the newDirectoryStream method above

DirectoryStream.Filter<Path> filter = new DirectoryStream.Filter<Path>() {
    public boolean accept(Path file) throws IOException {
        try {
            return (Files.isRegularFile(path));
        } catch (IOException x) {
            // Failed to determine if it's a file.
            System.err.println(x);
            return false;
        }
    }
};

For other filtering examples, [see documentation].(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/dirs.html#glob)

Upvotes: 13

xxxception
xxxception

Reputation: 955

One remark according to get all files in the directory.
The method Files.walk(path) will return all files by walking the file tree rooted at the given started file.

For instance, there is the next file tree:

\---folder
    |   file1.txt
    |   file2.txt
    |
    \---subfolder
            file3.txt
            file4.txt

Using the java.nio.file.Files.walk(Path):

Files.walk(Paths.get("folder"))
        .filter(Files::isRegularFile)
        .forEach(System.out::println);

Gives the following result:

folder\file1.txt
folder\file2.txt
folder\subfolder\file3.txt
folder\subfolder\file4.txt

To get all files only in the current directory use the java.nio.file.Files.list(Path):

Files.list(Paths.get("folder"))
        .filter(Files::isRegularFile)
        .forEach(System.out::println);

Result:

folder\file1.txt
folder\file2.txt

Upvotes: 36

WillDev10
WillDev10

Reputation: 29

Given a baseDir, lists out all the files and directories below it, written iteratively.

    public static List<File> listLocalFilesAndDirsAllLevels(File baseDir) {

    List<File>  collectedFilesAndDirs   = new ArrayList<>();
    Deque<File> remainingDirs           = new ArrayDeque<>();

    if(baseDir.exists()) {
        remainingDirs.add(baseDir);

        while(!remainingDirs.isEmpty()) {
            File dir = remainingDirs.removeLast();
            List<File> filesInDir = Arrays.asList(dir.listFiles());
            for(File fileOrDir : filesInDir)  {
                collectedFilesAndDirs.add(fileOrDir);
                if(fileOrDir.isDirectory()) {
                    remainingDirs.add(fileOrDir);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    return collectedFilesAndDirs;
}

Upvotes: -1

Manas Ranjan Mahapatra
Manas Ranjan Mahapatra

Reputation: 423

package com.commandline.folder;

import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

public class FolderReadingDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String str = args[0];
        final File folder = new File(str);
//      listFilesForFolder(folder);
        listFilesForFolder(str);
    }

    public static void listFilesForFolder(String str) {
        try (Stream<Path> paths = Files.walk(Paths.get(str))) {
            paths.filter(Files::isRegularFile).forEach(System.out::println);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public static void listFilesForFolder(final File folder) {
        for (final File fileEntry : folder.listFiles()) {
            if (fileEntry.isDirectory()) {
                listFilesForFolder(fileEntry);
            } else {
                System.out.println(fileEntry.getName());
            }
        }
    }

}

Upvotes: 0

Aris Mist
Aris Mist

Reputation: 89

You can put the file path to argument and create a list with all the filepaths and not put it the list manually. Then use a for loop and a reader. Example for txt files:

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{    
File[] files = new File(args[0].replace("\\", "\\\\")).listFiles(new FilenameFilter() { @Override public boolean accept(File dir, String name) { return name.endsWith(".txt"); } });
    ArrayList<String> filedir = new ArrayList<String>();
    String FILE_TEST = null;
    for (i=0; i<files.length; i++){
            filedir.add(files[i].toString());
            CSV_FILE_TEST=filedir.get(i) 

        try(Reader testreader = Files.newBufferedReader(Paths.get(FILE_TEST));
            ){
              //write your stuff
                 }}}

Upvotes: 1

Ashraf.Shk786
Ashraf.Shk786

Reputation: 624

This will work fine:

private static void addfiles(File inputValVal, ArrayList<File> files)
{
  if(inputVal.isDirectory())
  {
    ArrayList <File> path = new ArrayList<File>(Arrays.asList(inputVal.listFiles()));

    for(int i=0; i<path.size(); ++i)
    {
        if(path.get(i).isDirectory())
        {
            addfiles(path.get(i),files);
        }
        if(path.get(i).isFile())
        {
            files.add(path.get(i));
        }
     }

    /*  Optional : if you need to have the counts of all the folders and files you can create 2 global arrays 
        and store the results of the above 2 if loops inside these arrays */
   }

   if(inputVal.isFile())
   {
     files.add(inputVal);
   }

}

Upvotes: -1

Katta Nagarjuna
Katta Nagarjuna

Reputation: 1549

This will Read Specified file extension files in given path(looks sub folders also)

public static Map<String,List<File>> getFileNames(String 
dirName,Map<String,List<File>> filesContainer,final String fileExt){
    String dirPath = dirName;
    List<File>files = new ArrayList<>();
    Map<String,List<File>> completeFiles = filesContainer; 
    if(completeFiles == null) {
        completeFiles = new HashMap<>();
    }
    File file = new File(dirName);

    FileFilter fileFilter = new FileFilter() {
        @Override
        public boolean accept(File file) {
            boolean acceptFile = false;
            if(file.isDirectory()) {
                acceptFile = true;
            }else if (file.getName().toLowerCase().endsWith(fileExt))
              {
                acceptFile = true;
              }
            return acceptFile;
        }
    };
    for(File dirfile : file.listFiles(fileFilter)) {
        if(dirfile.isFile() && 
dirfile.getName().toLowerCase().endsWith(fileExt)) {
            files.add(dirfile);
        }else if(dirfile.isDirectory()) {
            if(!files.isEmpty()) {
                completeFiles.put(dirPath, files);  
            }

getFileNames(dirfile.getAbsolutePath(),completeFiles,fileExt);
        }
    }
    if(!files.isEmpty()) {
        completeFiles.put(dirPath, files);  
    }
    return completeFiles;
}

Upvotes: 0

moldovean
moldovean

Reputation: 3261

There are many good answers above, here's a different approach: In a maven project, everything you put in the resources folder is copied by default in the target/classes folder. To see what is available at runtime 

 ClassLoader contextClassLoader = 
 Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
    URL resource = contextClassLoader.getResource("");
    File file = new File(resource.toURI());
    File[] files = file.listFiles();
    for (File f : files) {
        System.out.println(f.getName());
    }

Now to get the files from a specific folder, let's say you have a folder called 'res' in your resources folder, just replace:

URL resource = contextClassLoader.getResource("res");

If you want to have access in your com.companyName package then:

contextClassLoader.getResource("com.companyName");

Upvotes: 2

Salvador Valencia
Salvador Valencia

Reputation: 1400

Just to expand on the accepted answer I store the filenames to an ArrayList (instead of just dumping them to System.out.println) I created a helper class "MyFileUtils" so it could be imported by other projects:

class MyFileUtils {
    public static void loadFilesForFolder(final File folder, List<String> fileList){
        for (final File fileEntry : folder.listFiles()) {
            if (fileEntry.isDirectory()) {
                loadFilesForFolder(fileEntry, fileList);
            } else {
                fileList.add( fileEntry.getParent() + File.separator + fileEntry.getName() );
            }
        }
    }
}

I added the full path to the file name. You would use it like this:

import MyFileUtils;

List<String> fileList = new ArrayList<String>();
final File folder = new File("/home/you/Desktop");
MyFileUtils.loadFilesForFolder(folder, fileList);

// Dump file list values
for (String fileName : fileList){
    System.out.println(fileName);
}

The ArrayList is passed by "value", but the value is used to point to the same ArrayList object living in the JVM Heap. In this way, each recursion call adds filenames to the same ArrayList (we are NOT creating a new ArrayList on each recursive call).

Upvotes: 2

Julian Pieles
Julian Pieles

Reputation: 3996

In Java 8 you can do this

Files.walk(Paths.get("/path/to/folder"))
     .filter(Files::isRegularFile)
     .forEach(System.out::println);

which will print all files in a folder while excluding all directories. If you need a list, the following will do:

Files.walk(Paths.get("/path/to/folder"))
     .filter(Files::isRegularFile)
     .collect(Collectors.toList())

If you want to return List<File> instead of List<Path> just map it:

List<File> filesInFolder = Files.walk(Paths.get("/path/to/folder"))
                                .filter(Files::isRegularFile)
                                .map(Path::toFile)
                                .collect(Collectors.toList());

You also need to make sure to close the stream! Otherwise you might run into an exception telling you that too many files are open. Read here for more information.

Upvotes: 172

GOXR3PLUS
GOXR3PLUS

Reputation: 7255

Java 8 Files.walk(..) is good when you are soore it will not throw Avoid Java 8 Files.walk(..) termination cause of ( java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException ) .

Here is a safe solution , not though so elegant as Java 8Files.walk(..) :

int[] count = {0};
try {
    Files.walkFileTree(Paths.get(dir.getPath()), new HashSet<FileVisitOption>(Arrays.asList(FileVisitOption.FOLLOW_LINKS)),
            Integer.MAX_VALUE, new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {
                @Override
                public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file , BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {
                    System.out.printf("Visiting file %s\n", file);
                    ++count[0];

                    return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
                }

                @Override
                public FileVisitResult visitFileFailed(Path file , IOException e) throws IOException {
                    System.err.printf("Visiting failed for %s\n", file);

                    return FileVisitResult.SKIP_SUBTREE;
                }

                @Override
                public FileVisitResult preVisitDirectory(Path dir , BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {
                     System.out.printf("About to visit directory %s\n", dir);
                    return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
                }
            });
} catch (IOException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Upvotes: 3

JamesC
JamesC

Reputation: 496

While I do agree with Rich, Orian and the rest for using:

    final File keysFileFolder = new File(<path>); 
    File[] fileslist = keysFileFolder.listFiles();

    if(fileslist != null)
    {
        //Do your thing here...
    }

for some reason all the examples here uses absolute path (i.e. all the way from root, or, say, drive letter (C:\) for windows..)

I'd like to add that it is possible to use relative path as-well. So, if you're pwd (current directory/folder) is folder1 and you want to parse folder1/subfolder, you simply write (in the code above instead of ):

    final File keysFileFolder = new File("subfolder");

Upvotes: 3

pdp
pdp

Reputation: 4395

Simple example that works with Java 1.7 to recursively list files in directories specified on the command-line:

import java.io.File;

public class List {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        for (String f : args) {
            listDir(f);
        }
    }

    private static void listDir(String dir) {
        File f = new File(dir);
        File[] list = f.listFiles();

        if (list == null) {
            return;
        }

        for (File entry : list) {
            System.out.println(entry.getName());
            if (entry.isDirectory()) {
                listDir(entry.getAbsolutePath());
            }
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

Sanket Thakkar
Sanket Thakkar

Reputation: 723

private static final String ROOT_FILE_PATH="/";
File f=new File(ROOT_FILE_PATH);
File[] allSubFiles=f.listFiles();
for (File file : allSubFiles) {
    if(file.isDirectory())
    {
        System.out.println(file.getAbsolutePath()+" is directory");
        //Steps for directory
    }
    else
    {
        System.out.println(file.getAbsolutePath()+" is file");
        //steps for files
    }
}

Upvotes: 10

Mukesh Jha
Mukesh Jha

Reputation: 27

package com;


import java.io.File;

/**
 *
 * @author ?Mukesh
 */
public class ListFiles {

     static File mainFolder = new File("D:\\Movies");

     public static void main(String[] args)
     {
         ListFiles lf = new ListFiles();
         lf.getFiles(lf.mainFolder);

         long fileSize = mainFolder.length();
             System.out.println("mainFolder size in bytes is: " + fileSize);
             System.out.println("File size in KB is : " + (double)fileSize/1024);
             System.out.println("File size in MB is :" + (double)fileSize/(1024*1024));
     }
     public void getFiles(File f){
         File files[];
         if(f.isFile())
             System.out.println(f.getAbsolutePath());
         else{
             files = f.listFiles();
             for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                 getFiles(files[i]);
             }
         }
     }
}

Upvotes: 1

Martin
Martin

Reputation: 1807

All of the answers on this topic that make use of the new Java 8 functions are neglecting to close the stream. The example in the accepted answer should be:

try (Stream<Path> filePathStream=Files.walk(Paths.get("/home/you/Desktop"))) {
    filePathStream.forEach(filePath -> {
        if (Files.isRegularFile(filePath)) {
            System.out.println(filePath);
        }
    });
}

From the javadoc of the Files.walk method:

The returned stream encapsulates one or more DirectoryStreams. If timely disposal of file system resources is required, the try-with-resources construct should be used to ensure that the stream's close method is invoked after the stream operations are completed.

Upvotes: 36

Subhojit Das
Subhojit Das

Reputation: 131

void getFiles(){
        String dirPath = "E:/folder_name";
        File dir = new File(dirPath);
        String[] files = dir.list();
        if (files.length == 0) {
            System.out.println("The directory is empty");
        } else {
            for (String aFile : files) {
                System.out.println(aFile);
            }
        }
    }

Upvotes: 2

Zar E Ahmer
Zar E Ahmer

Reputation: 34350

/**
 * Function to read all mp3 files from sdcard and store the details in an
 * ArrayList
 */


public ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> getPlayList() 
    {
        ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> songsList=new ArrayList<>();
        File home = new File(MEDIA_PATH);

        if (home.listFiles(new FileExtensionFilter()).length > 0) {
            for (File file : home.listFiles(new FileExtensionFilter())) {
                HashMap<String, String> song = new HashMap<String, String>();
                song.put(
                        "songTitle",
                        file.getName().substring(0,
                                (file.getName().length() - 4)));
                song.put("songPath", file.getPath());

                // Adding each song to SongList
                songsList.add(song);
            }
        }
        // return songs list array
        return songsList;
    }

    /**
     * Class to filter files which have a .mp3 extension
     * */
    class FileExtensionFilter implements FilenameFilter 
    {
        @Override
        public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
            return (name.endsWith(".mp3") || name.endsWith(".MP3"));
        }
    }

You can filter any textfiles or any other extension ..just replace it with .MP3

Upvotes: -1

Mohammad
Mohammad

Reputation: 89

I think this is good way to read all the files in a folder and sub folder's

private static void addfiles (File input,ArrayList<File> files)
{
    if(input.isDirectory())
    {
        ArrayList <File> path = new ArrayList<File>(Arrays.asList(input.listFiles()));
        for(int i=0 ; i<path.size();++i)
        {
            if(path.get(i).isDirectory())
            {
                addfiles(path.get(i),files);
            }
            if(path.get(i).isFile())
            {
                files.add(path.get(i));
            }
        }
    }
    if(input.isFile())
    {
        files.add(input);
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

shree
shree

Reputation: 1

list down files from Test folder present inside class path

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

public class Hello {

    public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException {

        System.out.println("List down all the files present on the server directory");
        File file1 = new File("/prog/FileTest/src/Test");
        File[] files = file1.listFiles();
        if (null != files) {
            for (int fileIntList = 0; fileIntList < files.length; fileIntList++) {
                String ss = files[fileIntList].toString();
                if (null != ss && ss.length() > 0) {
                    System.out.println("File: " + (fileIntList + 1) + " :" + ss.substring(ss.lastIndexOf("\\") + 1, ss.length()));
                }
            }
        }


    }


}

Upvotes: -1

micha
micha

Reputation: 49542

Just walk through all Files using Files.walkFileTree (Java 7)

Files.walkFileTree(Paths.get(dir), new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {
    @Override
    public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {
        System.out.println("file: " + file);
        return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
    }
});

Upvotes: 9

ChetanTwr
ChetanTwr

Reputation: 1

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

public class AvoidNullExp {

public static void main(String[] args) {

    List<File> fileList =new ArrayList<>();
     final File folder = new File("g:/master");
     new AvoidNullExp().listFilesForFolder(folder, fileList);
}

    public void listFilesForFolder(final File folder,List<File> fileList) {
        File[] filesInFolder = folder.listFiles();
        if (filesInFolder != null) {
            for (final File fileEntry : filesInFolder) {
                if (fileEntry.isDirectory()) {
                    System.out.println("DIR : "+fileEntry.getName());
                listFilesForFolder(fileEntry,fileList);
            } else {
                System.out.println("FILE : "+fileEntry.getName());
                fileList.add(fileEntry);
            }
         }
        }
     }


}

Upvotes: -1

Santosh Rathod
Santosh Rathod

Reputation: 29

    static File mainFolder = new File("Folder");
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        lf.getFiles(lf.mainFolder);
    }
    public void getFiles(File f) {
        File files[];
        if (f.isFile()) {
            String name=f.getName();

        } else {
            files = f.listFiles();
            for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                getFiles(files[i]);
            }
        }
    }

Upvotes: 2

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