How to get all files with certain extension in a folder in java

In this post, we will see how to list all files with certain extension in a folder.
For example, you want to list all .jpg or .zip files in a folder.

We will use FilenameFilter interface to list the files in a folder, so we will create a inner class which will implement FilenameFilter interface and implement accept method. We need to pass created inner class to java.io.File ‘s list method to list all files with specific extension.

Java Program :

package org.arpit.java2blog;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FilenameFilter;

public class GetAllFilesWithCertainExtMain {

* @author Arpit Mandliya

public static void main(String[] args) {

GetAllFilesWithCertainExtMain main=new GetAllFilesWithCertainExtMain();

System.out.println("Finding .zip files in the folder /Users/Arpit/Desktop/Blog");

System.out.println("-----------------");

// Read the file

File folder=new File("/Users/Arpit/Desktop/Blog");

main.getAllFilesWithCertainExtension(folder,"zip");

System.out.println("-----------------");

}

public void getAllFilesWithCertainExtension(File folder,String filterExt)

{

MyExtFilter extFilter=new MyExtFilter(filterExt);

if(!folder.isDirectory())

{

System.out.println("Not a folder");

}

else

{

// list out all the file name and filter by the extension

String[] list = folder.list(extFilter);

if (list.length == 0) {

System.out.println("no files end with : " + filterExt);

return;

}

for (int i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {

System.out.println("File :"+list[i]);

}

// inner class, generic extension filter

public class MyExtFilter implements FilenameFilter {

private String ext;

public MyExtFilter(String ext) {

this.ext = ext;

}

public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {

return (name.endsWith(ext));

}

When I ran above program, I got following output:

Finding .zip files in the folder /Users/Arpit/Desktop/Blog

-----------------

File :sampleFile1.zip

File :sampleFile2.zip

File :sampleFile3.zip

File :Spring3-Quartz-Example.zip

File :SpringQuartzIntegrationExample.zip

-----------------

So we have found all .zip file in folder “/Users/Arpit/Desktop/Blog”

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