How to move file/files from one folder to another in Scala

Question

I am new to Scala.

I\'ve Googled a lot on how to move files in Scala, but have only found how to move files in Java. I tried to move files using Java import Java.io

Answer 1

From my understanding of your question,
you are trying to pass String variables instead of java.nio.Path variables to the Files.move().

The below way works:

import java.io.File
import java.nio.file.{Files, Path, StandardCopyOption}

val d1 = new File("/abcd").toPath
val d2 = new File("/efgh").toPath

Files.move(d1, d2, StandardCopyOption.ATOMIC_MOVE)

However I see one more issue in your code. Both StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING and StandardCopyOption.ATOMIC_MOVE should work but, you can't move a parent directory directly into it's child directory.

$ mv public/ public/images
mv: cannot move ‘public/’ to a subdirectory of itself, ‘public/images’

Instead you might want to move public -> tmp -> public/images