Given directory "D:\books\java" having 5 pdf files as shown below :
Program to demonstrate how to search / find files in a directory using DirectoryStream in Java 7.
Output of the program :
Program to demonstrate how to search / find files in a directory using DirectoryStream in Java 7.
package com.hubberspot.java7;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.DirectoryStream;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
public class SearchFilesInDirectory {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// 1. Create a path to the directory
// where search for the files is to be done.
Path dirPath = Paths.get("D:\\books\\java");
DirectoryStream < Path > dirStream = null;
try {
// 2. Create a DirectoryStream instance using
// Files.newDirectoryStream(). The instance
// is created by passing the Path of the directory
// to be searched and the type of files as a filter
// here we are using filter to search all pdf files
// in the directory
dirStream = Files.newDirectoryStream(dirPath, "*.pdf");
// 3. Looping each file and printing the name
// on the console
for (Path entry : dirStream) {
System.out.println(entry.getFileName());
}
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
} finally {
// 4. Closing the DirectoryStream
try {
dirStream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
Output of the program :

