How to find files that match a wildcard string in Java?

Question

This should be really simple. If I have a String like this:

../Test?/sample*.txt

then what is a generally-accepted way to get a list of fil

Answer 1

Since Java 8 you can use Files#find method directly from java.nio.file.

public static Stream find(Path start,
                                int maxDepth,
                                BiPredicate matcher,
                                FileVisitOption... options)

Example usage

Files.find(startingPath,
           Integer.MAX_VALUE,
           (path, basicFileAttributes) -> path.toFile().getName().matches(".*.pom")
);