Delete Files with same Prefix String using Java

No, you can’t. Java is rather low-level language — comparing with shell-script — so things like this must be done more explicetly. You should search for files with required mask with folder.listFiles(FilenameFilter), and iterate through returned array deleting each entry. Like this: final File folder = … final File[] files = folder.listFiles( new FilenameFilter() { …

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What is the use of @Serial annotation as of Java 14

What I don’t understand, does the annotation affect the de/serialization itself No. Its retention is ‘source’, so it’s discarded after compilation. The bytecode will contain no trace of it. It has no way to influence runtime behaviour (besides possibly compile-time code generation, which does not happen). Like @Override, it is optional and is supposed to …

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How to get file content in java?

Not the built-in API – but Guava does, amongst its other treasures. (It’s a fabulous library.) String content = Files.toString(new File(“file.txt”), Charsets.UTF_8); There are similar methods for reading any Readable, or loading the entire contents of a binary file as a byte array, or reading a file into a list of strings, etc. Note that …

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Streaming large files in a java servlet

When possible, you should not store the entire contents of a file to be served in memory. Instead, aquire an InputStream for the data, and copy the data to the Servlet OutputStream in pieces. For example: ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream(); InputStream in = [ code to get source input stream ]; String mimeType = [ …

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BufferedReader vs Console vs Scanner

BufferedReader Since Java 1.1 Throws checked exceptions Can read single chars, char arrays, and lines Fast Scanner Since Java 1.5 Throws unchecked exceptions Can read lines, numbers, whitespace-delimited tokens, regex-delimited tokens Difficult to read single characters Console Since Java 1.6 Throws unchecked exceptions Not always available (e.g. if input/output is redirected, and in Eclipse) Can …

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How to overwrite file via java nio writer?

You want to call the method without any OpenOption arguments. Files.write(path, content.getBytes()); From the Javadoc: The options parameter specifies how the the file is created or opened. If no options are present then this method works as if the CREATE, TRUNCATE_EXISTING, and WRITE options are present. In other words, it opens the file for writing, …

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Getting java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Connection timed out in android

I’ve searched all over the web and after reading lot of docs regarding connection timeout exception, the thing I understood is that, preventing SocketTimeoutException is beyond our limit. One way to effectively handle it is to define a connection timeout and later handle it by using a try-catch block. Hope this will help anyone in …

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