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Java PathMatcher not working properly on Windows

I try to implement a JUnit test for my SimpleFileVisitor but the used PathMatcher doesn’t work properly on Windows. The problem seems to be the PathMatcher with a regex pattern behaves different on Linux and Windows: But I’ve a longer list in my regex for multiple files which are not easy to migra…

How to get .jar resources path?

I’m using a custom method to get pictures from the resources/ folder. The hardcoded path works well when programming during production (src/main/resources/). However when delivering, I would need to make this path relative to the .jar root. So I made this. The printed path is valid and points to the cor…

Java output: can’t write to subdirectory

How can I write to a file in a subfolder? Other answers on here said to use Paths, but no luck. In my code, for whichFileToSaveTo, if I remove “/Subfolder/” from it, my code works correctly and writes to the file. With “/Subfolder/”, I get a java.io.FileNotFoundException. I am using Wi…

Remove hardcoded file path from java program

I have created a simple java program in which I create a text file and read the data written in it. The problem is that I don’t want to hardcode the path of the file because after developing the application I created a installer package for my program which allows users to install it on their systems. N…

When to use ** (double star) in glob syntax within JAVA

Directly from this Java Oracle tutorial: Two asterisks, **, works like * but crosses directory boundaries. This syntax is generally used for matching complete paths. Could anybody do a real example out of it? What do they mean with “crosses directory boundary”? Crossing the directory boundary, I i…

Add the play script to your PATH in Mac

I’m not good with the terminal, so I have no idea what this means…. you should add the framework installation directory to your system PATH. On UNIX systems, this means doing something like: On Windows you’ll need to set it in the global environment variables. This means update the PATH in the env…

How to access a sub-file/folder in Java 7 java.nio.file.Path?

Java 7 introduced java.nio.file.Path as a possible replacement for java.io.File. With File, when I access a file under a specific, I would do: What’s the way to do this with Path? I supposed this will work: But calling parent.toString() seems ugly. Is there a better way? Answer Use the resolve method on…