Find files in a folder using Java

Question

What I need to do if Search a folder say C:\\example

I then need to go through each file and check to see if it matches a few start characters so if fil

Answer 1

To elaborate on this response, Apache IO Utils might save you some time. Consider the following example that will recursively search for a file of a given name:

    File file = FileUtils.listFiles(new File("the/desired/root/path"), 
                new NameFileFilter("filename.ext"), 
                FileFilterUtils.trueFileFilter()
            ).iterator().next();

See:

• org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils
• org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.FileFilterUtils
• https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/javadocs/api-2.5/org/apache/commons/io/filefilter/IOFileFilter.html