// This example is from _Java Examples in a Nutshell_. (http://www.oreilly.com) // Copyright (c) 1997 by David Flanagan // This example is provided WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY either expressed or implied. // You may study, use, modify, and distribute it for non-commercial purposes. // For any commercial use, see http://www.davidflanagan.com/javaexamples import java.io.*; /** * This class is a standalone program to copy a file, and also defines a * static copy() method that other programs can use to copy files. **/ public class FileCopy { /** The main() method of the standalone program. Calls copy(). */ public static void main(String[] args) { if (args.length != 2) // Check arguments System.err.println("Usage: java FileCopy "); else { // Call copy() to do the copy, and display any error messages it throws. try { copy(args[0], args[1]); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.println(e.getMessage()); } } } /** * The static method that actually performs the file copy. * Before copying the file, however, it performs a lot of tests to make * sure everything is as it should be. */ public static void copy(String from_name, String to_name) throws IOException{ File from_file = new File(from_name); // Get File objects from Strings File to_file = new File(to_name); // First make sure the source file exists, is a file, and is readable. if (!from_file.exists()) abort("FileCopy: no such source file: " + from_name); if (!from_file.isFile()) abort("FileCopy: can't copy directory: " + from_name); if (!from_file.canRead()) abort("FileCopy: source file is unreadable: " + from_name); // If the destination is a directory, use the source file name // as the destination file name if (to_file.isDirectory()) to_file = new File(to_file, from_file.getName()); // If the destination exists, make sure it is a writeable file // and ask before overwriting it. If the destination doesn't // exist, make sure the directory exists and is writeable. if (to_file.exists()) { if (!to_file.canWrite()) abort("FileCopy: destination file is unwriteable: " + to_name); // Ask whether to overwrite it System.out.print("Overwrite existing file " + to_name + "? (Y/N): "); System.out.flush(); // Get the user's response. BufferedReader in=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); String response = in.readLine(); // Check the response. If not a Yes, abort the copy. if (!response.equals("Y") && !response.equals("y")) abort("FileCopy: existing file was not overwritten."); } else { // if file doesn't exist, check if directory exists and is writeable. // If getParent() returns null, then the directory is the current dir. // so look up the user.dir system property to find out what that is. String parent = to_file.getParent(); // Get the destination directory if (parent == null) parent = System.getProperty("user.dir"); // or CWD File dir = new File(parent); // Convert it to a file. if (!dir.exists()) abort("FileCopy: destination directory doesn't exist: " + parent); if (dir.isFile()) abort("FileCopy: destination is not a directory: " + parent); if (!dir.canWrite()) abort("FileCopy: destination directory is unwriteable: " + parent); } // If we've gotten this far, then everything is okay. // So we copy the file, a buffer of bytes at a time. FileInputStream from = null; // Stream to read from source FileOutputStream to = null; // Stream to write to destination try { from = new FileInputStream(from_file); // Create input stream to = new FileOutputStream(to_file); // Create output stream byte[] buffer = new byte[4096]; // A buffer to hold file contents int bytes_read; // How many bytes in buffer // Read a chunk of bytes into the buffer, then write them out, // looping until we reach the end of the file (when read() returns -1). // Note the combination of assignment and comparison in this while // loop. This is a common I/O programming idiom. while((bytes_read = from.read(buffer)) != -1) // Read bytes until EOF to.write(buffer, 0, bytes_read); // write bytes } // Always close the streams, even if exceptions were thrown finally { if (from != null) try { from.close(); } catch (IOException e) { ; } if (to != null) try { to.close(); } catch (IOException e) { ; } } } /** A convenience method to throw an exception */ private static void abort(String msg) throws IOException { throw new IOException(msg); } }