Re: monitoring directory tree changes

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From: John McGrath [TeamB]
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 05:29

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On 12/31/2003 at 10:08:49 PM, gary wrote:

> even so, i'd rather do it in a way that was more generic.  in C, i'd
> probably just traverse directories doing stat() calls and looking at
> timestamps, but i don't know java enough to know its file system
> features yet, so i'll have to look into a rough equivalent to this C
> library call.

See the java.io.File class.  You can list the contents of a directory
with the list() or listFiles() methods on a File object that refers to
a directory.  You can get attributes of a file using methods such as
lastModified(), canRead(), canWrite(), and length().

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Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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