Moving Files / Creatiung Directories

[Karstyn]

I can easily get a file listing from a directory, but then I would like to move all of those files to other directories. I may also need to create the new directories these files will be moved to.

I was surprised that these two functions (fileMove and directoryCreate) are not already a part of ScriptMaster.

So I thought I would take a crack at creating these myself. Looking at the Groovy Reference site, in the File category, I don't see these methods.

Am I missing something simple?

Thanks.

[Jesse Barnum]

Hi Karstyn - you'll love learning Groovy/Java! Take a look at the class documentation for java.io.File:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html

in particular, you'll need to use the rename() method and the mkdir() or mkdirs() methods. If you get stuck, post your code and I'm sure somebody will be happy to help.

[Karstyn]

Great - Thanks!

I was able to create a directoryCreate function easy enough. I am having problems with fileMove though.

This is what I'm starting with:

new File(origPath).renameTo(newPath)

where both parameters are fully qualified paths ending with the file name.

One question I have with paths - it seems that they always take forward slashes, correct? Regardless of platform?

[Karstyn]

Seems to be a problem with my use of .renameTo() - I'm getting this error:

groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: java.lang.String.renameTo() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String) values: {"C:Documents and SettingskmccoyDesktopimagesMovedA0166433.jpg"}

[Jesse Barnum]

This error indicates that you're trying to call rename() on a String, instead of a File. Try something like:

new File("/path/to/oldfile").renameTo( new File("/path/to/newfile") )

[Karstyn]

That was it!

It's the simple things. I'm not at all familiar with java yet so just fumbling my way along. That helped a lot.

Thanks a million!

[Tanner]

I was hoping to do something similar to this. Could anyone suggest the best way to copy a whole directory. Instead of moving it I need to copy a directory from one place to another.

Thanks.

[Jesse Barnum]

Tanner, I started a new thread called 'Copying directories' with a response to your question.