Best way to list files in Java, sorted by Date Modified?

Question

I want to get a list of files in a directory, but I want to sort it such that the oldest files are first. My solution was to call File.listFiles and just resort the list ba

Answer 1

private static List sortByLastModified(String dirPath) {
    List files = listFilesRec(dirPath);
    Collections.sort(files, new Comparator() {
        public int compare(File o1, File o2) {
            return Long.compare(o1.lastModified(), o2.lastModified());
        }
    });
    return files;
}