Java: Find .txt files in specified folder

Question

Is there a built in Java code that will parse a given folder and search it for .txt files?

Answer 1

You can use the listFiles() method provided by the java.io.File class.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FilenameFilter;

public class Filter {

    public File[] finder( String dirName){
        File dir = new File(dirName);

        return dir.listFiles(new FilenameFilter() { 
                 public boolean accept(File dir, String filename)
                      { return filename.endsWith(".txt"); }
        } );

    }

}

Answer 2

Try:

List<String> textFiles(String directory) {
  List<String> textFiles = new ArrayList<String>();
  File dir = new File(directory);
  for (File file : dir.listFiles()) {
    if (file.getName().endsWith((".txt"))) {
      textFiles.add(file.getName());
    }
  }
  return textFiles;
}

You want to do a case insensitive search in which case:

    if (file.getName().toLowerCase().endsWith((".txt"))) {

If you want to recursively search for through a directory tree for text files, you should be able to adapt the above as either a recursive function or an iterative function using a stack.

Answer 3

import org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.WildcardFileFilter;

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File dir = new File(fileDir);
FileFilter fileFilter = new WildcardFileFilter("*.txt");
File[] files = dir.listFiles(fileFilter);

The code above works great for me

Answer 4

It's really useful, I used it with a slight change:

filename=directory.list(new FilenameFilter() { 
    public boolean accept(File dir, String filename) { 
        return filename.startsWith(ipro); 
    }
});

Answer 5

I made my solution based on the posts I found here with Google. And I thought there is no harm to post mine as well even if it is an old thread.

The only plus this code gives is that it can iterate through sub-directories as well.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileFilter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.DirectoryFileFilter;
import org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.WildcardFileFilter;

Method is as follows:

List <File> exploreThis(String dirPath){

    File topDir = new File(dirPath);

    List<File> directories = new ArrayList<>();
    directories.add(topDir);

    List<File> textFiles = new ArrayList<>();

    List<String> filterWildcards = new ArrayList<>();
    filterWildcards.add("*.txt");
    filterWildcards.add("*.doc");

    FileFilter typeFilter = new WildcardFileFilter(filterWildcards);

    while (directories.isEmpty() == false)
    {
        List<File> subDirectories = new ArrayList();

        for(File f : directories)
        {
            subDirectories.addAll(Arrays.asList(f.listFiles((FileFilter)DirectoryFileFilter.INSTANCE)));
            textFiles.addAll(Arrays.asList(f.listFiles(typeFilter)));
        }

        directories.clear();
        directories.addAll(subDirectories);
    }

    return textFiles;
}

Answer 6

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.FileSystems;
import java.nio.file.FileVisitResult;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.PathMatcher;
import java.nio.file.SimpleFileVisitor;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class FileFinder extends SimpleFileVisitor<Path> {
    private PathMatcher matcher;
    public ArrayList<Path> foundPaths = new ArrayList<>();

    public FileFinder(String pattern) {
        matcher = FileSystems.getDefault().getPathMatcher("glob:" + pattern);
    }

    @Override
    public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {
        Path name = file.getFileName();

        if (matcher.matches(name)) {
            foundPaths.add(file);
        }

        return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
    }
}

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.LinkOption;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        Path fileDir = Paths.get("files");
        FileFinder finder = new FileFinder("*.txt");
        Files.walkFileTree(fileDir, finder);

        ArrayList<Path> foundFiles = finder.foundPaths;

        if (foundFiles.size() > 0) {
            for (Path path : foundFiles) {
                System.out.println(path.toRealPath(LinkOption.NOFOLLOW_LINKS));
            }
        } else {
            System.out.println("No files were founds!");
        }
    }
}

Answer 7

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;   

List<File> htmFileList = new ArrayList<File>();

for (File file : (List<File>) FileUtils.listFiles(new File(srcDir), new String[]{"txt", "TXT"}, true)) {
    htmFileList.add(file);
}

This is my latest code to add all text files from a directory

Answer 8

Here is my platform specific code(unix)

public static List<File> findFiles(String dir, String... names)
    {
        LinkedList<String> command = new LinkedList<String>();
        command.add("/usr/bin/find");
        command.add(dir);
        List<File> result = new LinkedList<File>();
        if (names.length > 1)
            {
                List<String> newNames = new LinkedList<String>(Arrays.asList(names));
                String first = newNames.remove(0);
                command.add("-name");
                command.add(first);
                for (String newName : newNames)
                    {
                        command.add("-or");
                        command.add("-name");
                        command.add(newName);
                    }
            }
        else if (names.length > 0)
            {
                command.add("-name");
                command.add(names[0]);
            }
        try
            {
                ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(command);
                Process p = pb.start();
                p.waitFor();
                InputStream is = p.getInputStream();
                InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
                String line;
                while ((line = br.readLine()) != null)
                    {
                        // System.err.println(line);
                        result.add(new File(line));
                    }
                p.destroy();
            }
        catch (Exception e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        return result;
    }