Question

Hi i’m working on a simple program and for the set up of the program i need the program to check a directory for zip files and any zip files in there need to be moved into another folder.

Lets say i have folder1 and it contains 6 zip files and then i have another folder called folder2 that i need all the zips and only the zips in folder1 moved to folder2

Thank you for any help one this problem.

Btw i’m a noob so any code samples would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

For each file in folder1, use String#endsWith() to see if the file name ends with ".zip". If it does, move it to folder2. FilenameFilter provides a nice way to do this (though it’s not strictly necessary).

It would look something like this (not tested):

File f1 = new File("/path/to/folder1");
File f2 = new File("/path/to/folder2");

FilenameFilter filter = new FilenameFilter()
{
    @Override public boolean accept(File dir, String name)
    {
        return name.endsWith(".zip");
    }
};

for (File f : f1.listFiles(filter))
{
    // TODO move to folder2
}