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Report on a files status in Java
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/*
* Copyright (c) Ian F. Darwin, http://www.darwinsys.com/, 1996-2002.
* All rights reserved. Software written by Ian F. Darwin and others.
* $Id: LICENSE,v 1.8 2004/02/09 03:33:38 ian Exp $
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Date;
/**
* Report on a file's status in Java
*
* @author Ian F. Darwin, http://www.darwinsys.com/
* @version $Id: FileStatus.java,v 1.6 2004/03/11 03:25:35 ian Exp $
*/
public class FileStatus {
public static void main(String[] argv) throws IOException {
// Ensure that a filename (or something) was given in argv[0]
if (argv.length == 0) {
System.err.println("Usage: FileStatus filename");
System.exit(1);
}
for (int i = 0; i < argv.length; i++) {
status(argv[i]);
}
}
public static void status(String fileName) throws IOException {
System.out.println("---" + fileName + "---");
// Construct a File object for the given file.
File f = new File(fileName);
// See if it actually exists
if (!f.exists()) {
System.out.println("file not found");
System.out.println(); // Blank line
return;
}
// Print full name
System.out.println("Canonical name " + f.getCanonicalPath());
// Print parent directory if possible
String p = f.getParent();
if (p != null) {
System.out.println("Parent directory: " + p);
}
// Check if the file is readable
if (f.canRead()) {
System.out.println("File is readable.");
}
// Check if the file is writable
if (f.canWrite()) {
System.out.println("File is writable.");
}
// Report on the modification time.
Date d = new Date();
d.setTime(f.lastModified());
System.out.println("Last modified " + d);
// See if file, directory, or other. If file, print size.
if (f.isFile()) {
// Report on the file's size
System.out.println("File size is " + f.length() + " bytes.");
} else if (f.isDirectory()) {
System.out.println("It's a directory");
} else {
System.out.println("I dunno! Neither a file nor a directory!");
}
System.out.println(); // blank line between entries
}
}
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