Need to copy all files from one folder to another using java

Question

Src folder C:\temp
Dest folder C:\temp1

temp has one file (sample.csv)and temp1 folder is empty

I need to copy sample.csv to temp1

Note: I cannot specify sample.csv anywhere in code as this name is dynamic.

Path temp = Files.move(paths.get(src),patha.get(dest)).

This is working only if I give dummy file inside dest directory.
C:\temp1\dummy.csv (i want to specify only C:\temp1 and src folder should go inside temp1)

Answer 1

If you want to copy files from one directory to another one using plain java.nio , you could make use of a DirectoryStream .

Here's some example:

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    // define source and destination directories
    Path sourceDir = Paths.get("C:\\temp");
    Path destinationDir = Paths.get("C:\\temp1");
    
    // check if those paths are valid directories
    if (Files.isDirectory(sourceDir, LinkOption.NOFOLLOW_LINKS)
        && Files.isDirectory(destinationDir, LinkOption.NOFOLLOW_LINKS)) {
        // if they are, stream the content of the source directory
        try (DirectoryStream<Path> ds = Files.newDirectoryStream(sourceDir)) {
            // handle each file in that stream 
            for (Path fso : ds) {
                /* 
                 * copy it to the destination, 
                 * that means resolving the file name to the destination directory
                 */
                Files.move(fso, destinationDir.resolve(fso.getFileName().toString()));
            }
        }
    }
}

You can add more checks, like checking if the directories are readable and actually exist. I just put the check for a directory here in order to show the possibilities of the Files class.

Answer 2

Apache commons-io library has a FileUtils.copyDirectory() method. It copies all files from source dir and its subfolders to dest dir, creating dest dir if necessary.

FileUtils docs

If you are using Gradle, add this to your dependencies section to add this library to your project:

implementation 'commons-io:commons-io:2.11.0'