How do I check if a file exists in Java

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If possible I'd prefer a real API call returning true/false as opposed to some "Call API to open a file and catch when it throws an exception which you check for 'no file' in the text", but I can live with the latter.

Dec 29, 2020 in Java by anonymous
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4 answers to this question.

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Using java.io.File:

File f = new File(filePathString);
if(f.exists() && !f.isDirectory()) { 
    // do something
}
answered Dec 29, 2020 by Gitika
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To test to see if a file or directory exists, use the exists method of the Java File class, as shown in this example:

File tmpDir = new File("/var/tmp");
boolean exists = tmpDir.exists();

The existing method of the Java File class returns true if the file or directory exists, and false otherwise.

answered Dec 29, 2020 by Nikita
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The exists() function is a part of File class in Java . This function determines whether the is a file or directory denoted by the abstract filename exists or not.The function returns true if the abstract file path exists or else returns false.

Function signature:

public boolean exists()

Syntax:

file.exists()

// Java program to demonstrate

// exists() method of File Class

  

import java.io.*;

  

public class solution {

    public static void main(String args[])

    {

  

        // Get the file

        File f = new File("F:\\program.txt");

  

        // Check if the specified file

        // Exists or not

        if (f.exists())

            System.out.println("Exists");

        else

            System.out.println("Does not Exists");

    }

}

Output:

Exists
answered Dec 29, 2020 by Carlos
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To test to see if a file or directory exists, use the “exists()” method of the Java java.io.File class, as shown here:

File tempFile = new File("c:/temp/temp.txt");

boolean exists = tempFile.exists();

If above method returns true then file or directory does exist, and otherwise does not exists.

Check file exist with exists() method
import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;


public class TemporaryFileExample

{

   public static void main(String[] args)

   {

      File temp;

      try

      {

         temp = File.createTempFile("myTempFile", ".txt");

          

         boolean exists = temp.exists();

          

         System.out.println("Temp file exists : " + exists);

      } catch (IOException e)

      {

         e.printStackTrace();

      }

   }

}

Program Output.

Console

Temp file exists : true

answered Dec 29, 2020 by Rajiv
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