trying to find if a file exists in a given path
- by Yeshwanth Venkatesh
I am fairly new to java and I am trying to find if the file specified in the LINUX path exists.
private void validateFilePath(String filePath) {
File dir = new File(filePath);
if(dir.exists()){
System.out.println("File exists in the path " + dir);
setTARGET_IMG_DIR("filePath");
return;
}else{
System.out.println("File does not exists in the path: " + dir);
return;
}
}
The dir.exists works fine if I give a absolute path from my root like this
/Users/yv/Documents/Eclipse-workspace/InputParser/bin/test.txt
but if I give a relative path like
test.txt or /InputParser/bin/test.txt it says files does not exists.
I am planing on creating a jar of this projects and hence this should work with both relative path(files in the same directory) and absolute path from the root. How can I handle this ?
Is it possible to search for the absolute path of that file from the root and append it to the file name ?
