Copying Directories

[Donald Nunn]

Is there a way in Java to copy the contents of one directory to another. I've tried the listFiles() method and I can capture the contents of a directory, however, I can't seem to find a way to write the contents to another directory.
Thanks,
[ January 13, 2002: Message edited by: Donald Nunn ]

[Peter Chase]

AFAIK there is no single method to copy a file, let alone a directory.
To copy a file, you can either use File or RandomAccessFile, copying the contents from one instance to another. For File, you can use streams. For RandomAccessFile, you can use read() and write(). I suspect RandomAccessFile may be faster, as it is lower-level.

[Jason Kretzer]

You are going to have to go through the directory recursively and get a name for each file/directory. Then you will have to lock a FileInputStream onto each with its acoompanying Reader and create any directories the file requires. Then use a FileOutputStream and its appropriate writer to write the files.
HTH,