FileUtils.java

/*
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 * Copyright (C) 2000 Myles Chippendale
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 * Part of Melati (http://melati.org), a framework for the rapid
 * development of clean, maintainable web applications.
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 */

package org.melati.util;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

/**
 * An assortment of useful operations on <code>File</code>s.
 */
public final class FileUtils {

  private FileUtils() {}
  
  /**
   * Returns a File in the given <code>directory</code> which does
   * not already exist. 
   *
   * This file is found by starting with the given
   * <code>filename</code>. If a file of this name already exists we
   * put 0 then 1,2,... before the extension until we find one that
   * does not exists.
   * <p>
   * For instance, if <code>newfile.txt</code> exists then we
   * check <code>newfile0.txt</code>, <code>newfile1.txt</code>, ...
   * until we find a new filename.
   * 
   * @return a new File whose name has been made unique 
   */

  public static File withUniqueName(File file) {
    String directory = file.getParent();
    String filename = file.getName();
    int dot = filename.lastIndexOf(".");
    String start = (dot != -1) ? filename.substring(0,dot) : filename;
    String extension =
        (dot != -1) ? filename.substring(dot,filename.length()) : "";

    int count = 0;
    while (file.exists()) {
      filename = start + (count++) + extension;
      file = new File(directory, filename);
    }
    return file;
  }

  /**
   * Write a byte array to a given file.
   * @param file file to write to
   * @param data to write to file
   * @return File with data written to it
   */
  public static File writeFile(File file, byte[] data) throws IOException {
    FileOutputStream os=new FileOutputStream(file);
    os.write(data);
    os.close();
    return file;
  }

  /**
   * Mark a file as executable.  Does <TT>chmod +x <I>file</I></TT> on
   * Unix, else does nothing.
   */
  public static void makeExecutable(File file) throws IOException {
    if (File.separatorChar == '/')
      // we're unix
      try {
        if (Runtime.getRuntime().exec(
                new String[] { "chmod", "+x", file.getPath() }).waitFor() != 0)
          throw new IOException("chmod +x " + file + " failed");
      }
      catch (InterruptedException e) {
        throw new IOException("Interrupted waiting for chmod +x " + file);
      }
  }
}