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Thanx

Posted by saddysan on June 20, 2001 at 2:44 PM

Hello Pierre,
Thanks for ur help
saddy

> > hello,
> > Can any body tell me plz how to find size of a directory(in bytes).The directory may contain sub-directories. Thanx in advance

> > saddy

> private long getDirSize(File path) {
> Iterator path_iterator;
> File current_file ;
> long size;
>
> path_iterator =
> (Arrays.asList(path.listFiles))).iterator();
>
> size=0;
>
> while (path_iterator.hasNext()) {
> current_file=(File) path_iterator.next();
> if (current_file.isFile()) {
> size+=current_file.length();
> }
> else {
> size+=getDirSize(current_file);
> }
> }
>
> return size;
> }