making directories

[lowenbrau]

Hi,

I have encountered something interesting. In order to create a directory within another directory, the parent directory must be created first. For example:

File f = new File ("parent directory/child directory");
f.mkdir();

DOES NOT WORK

File f = new File ("parent directory");
f1.mkdir();
f = new File ("parent directory/child directory");
f.mkdir();

THIS WORKS

QUESTION:

is there a way to do it without explicitly creating the parent directory first?


Cheers
ST

 

[Pushkaraj]

Hi,

I have encountered something interesting. In order to create a directory within another directory, the parent directory must be created first. For example:

File f = new File ("parent directory/child directory");
f.mkdir();

DOES NOT WORK

File f = new File ("parent directory");
f1.mkdir();
f = new File ("parent directory/child directory");
f.mkdir();

THIS WORKS

QUESTION:

is there a way to do it without explicitly creating the parent directory first?

Cheers
ST

If you scan File api neatly you could see a function
boolean mkdirs() : Creates the directory named by this abstract
pathname, including any necessary but nonexistent parent directories.
use this.

 

[Thomas Kellerer]

is there a way to do it without explicitly creating the parent directory
first?

Quote from:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/File.html#mkdirs()

"Creates the directory named by this abstract pathname, including any
necessary but nonexistent parent directories."

Thomas

 

[Thomas Fritsch]

I have encountered something interesting. In order to create a directory
within another directory, the parent directory must be created first.
For example:

File f = new File ("parent directory/child directory");
f.mkdir();

DOES NOT WORK

File f = new File ("parent directory");
f1.mkdir();
f = new File ("parent directory/child directory");
f.mkdir();

THIS WORKS

QUESTION:

is there a way to do it without explicitly creating the parent directory
first?

As always the Java API docs are a good for such questions.
Look up <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html>
Carefully read about mkdir() and mkdirs().

 

[Andrew Thompson]

lowenbrau wrote:
...

I have encountered something interesting.

Interesting to people who code by typing random
statements into an editor, rather than those who
consult the documentation first, perhaps..

...In order to create a directory within another directory, the parent directory must be created first.
Un-huh..

is there a way to do it without explicitly creating the parent directory first?

1st you might try RTFM.
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#mkdirs()>

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Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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[Ian Wilson]

Hi,

I have encountered something interesting. In order to create a directory
within another directory, the parent directory must be created first.
For example:

File f = new File ("parent directory/child directory");
f.mkdir();

DOES NOT WORK

Have you read the documentation for File.mkdir() and File.mkdirs()?

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/File.html#mkdir()

File f = new File ("parent directory");
f1.mkdir();
f = new File ("parent directory/child directory");
f.mkdir();

THIS WORKS

QUESTION:

is there a way to do it without explicitly creating the parent directory
first?

Yes. File.mkdirs()