Copy file in Java and replace existing target
package main.java;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
public class CopyFileOnExist {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Path sourceDirectory = Paths.get("C:/Users/abc/Downloads/FileNotFoundExceptionExample/append.txt");
Path targetDirectory = Paths.get("C:/Users/abc/Downloads/FileNotFoundExceptionExample/append5.txt");
//copy source to target using Files Class
try {
Files.copy(sourceDirectory, targetDirectory,StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e.toString());
}
}
}
As a complement to @assylias' answer:
If you use Java 7, drop File
entirely. What you want is Path
instead.
And to get a Path
object matching a path on your filesystem, you do:
Paths.get("path/to/file"); // argument may also be absolute
Get used to it real fast. Note that if you still use APIs which require File
, Path
has a .toFile()
method.
Note that if you are in the unfortunate case where you use an API which returns File
objects, you can always do:
theFileObject.toPath()
But in code of yours, use Path
. Systematically. Without a second thought.
EDIT Copying a file to another using 1.6 using NIO can be done as such; note that the Closer
class is inspited by Guava:
public final class Closer
implements Closeable
{
private final List<Closeable> closeables = new ArrayList<Closeable>();
// @Nullable is a JSR 305 annotation
public <T extends Closeable> T add(@Nullable final T closeable)
{
closeables.add(closeable);
return closeable;
}
public void closeQuietly()
{
try {
close();
} catch (IOException ignored) {
}
}
@Override
public void close()
throws IOException
{
IOException toThrow = null;
final List<Closeable> l = new ArrayList<Closeable>(closeables);
Collections.reverse(l);
for (final Closeable closeable: l) {
if (closeable == null)
continue;
try {
closeable.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
if (toThrow == null)
toThrow = e;
}
}
if (toThrow != null)
throw toThrow;
}
}
// Copy one file to another using NIO
public static void doCopy(final File source, final File destination)
throws IOException
{
final Closer closer = new Closer();
final RandomAccessFile src, dst;
final FileChannel in, out;
try {
src = closer.add(new RandomAccessFile(source.getCanonicalFile(), "r");
dst = closer.add(new RandomAccessFile(destination.getCanonicalFile(), "rw");
in = closer.add(src.getChannel());
out = closer.add(dst.getChannel());
in.transferTo(0L, in.size(), out);
out.force(false);
} finally {
closer.close();
}
}
You need to pass Path
arguments as explained by the error message:
Path from = cfgFilePath.toPath(); //convert from File to Path
Path to = Paths.get(strTarget); //convert from String to Path
Files.copy(from, to, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
That assumes your strTarget
is a valid path.