Why does Java not have a file copy method? This seems like such an obvious thing to have, and it saves people from writing things like this example.
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Why does Java not have a file copy method? This seems like such an obvious thing to have, and it saves people from writing things like this example.
The Java API is missing more than just file copying. You might be interested in checking out the Apache Commons libraries. For example, the IO library’s FileUtils provides file copying methods.