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Java - rename or move file
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In this article, we would like to show you how to rename or move file in Java.
We use Files.move() method both to rename or move a file to a target file.
In this example, we use Files.move() method to rename example.txt file to newName.txt.
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import java.io.IOException;2
import java.nio.file.Files;3
import java.nio.file.Path;4
import java.nio.file.Paths;5
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public class Example {8
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public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {10
Path source = Paths.get("C:\\path\\example.txt");11
Path target = Paths.get("C:\\path\\newName.txt");12
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try {14
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Files.move(source, target);16
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} catch (IOException e) {18
e.printStackTrace();19
}20
}21
}In this example, we use:
Files.createDirectories- to create the directory if doesn't exist,Files.move- to move the file under specified path (source) to the new directory (target).
Practical example:
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package tmpOperations;2
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import java.io.IOException;4
import java.nio.file.Files;5
import java.nio.file.Path;6
import java.nio.file.Paths;7
import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;8
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public class Example {11
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public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {13
Path source = Paths.get("C:\\path\\example.txt");14
Path target = Paths.get("C:\\path\\newDirectory");15
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// creates the target directory (no effect if directory exits)17
Files.createDirectories(target);18
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Files.move(source, target.resolve(source.getFileName()),20
StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);21
}22
}