Package org.apache.commons.io.filefilter

Class SymbolicLinkFileFilter

java.lang.Object
org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.AbstractFileFilter
org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.SymbolicLinkFileFilter
All Implemented Interfaces:
FileFilter, FilenameFilter, Serializable, FileVisitor<Path>, PathMatcher, PathFilter, PathVisitor, IOFileFilter
public class SymbolicLinkFileFilter extends AbstractFileFilter implements Serializable
This filter accepts Files that are symbolic links.

For example, here is how to print out a list of the real files within the current directory:

Using Classic IO

 File dir = FileUtils.current();
 String[] files = dir.list(SymbolicLinkFileFilter.INSTANCE);
 for (String file : files) {
     System.out.println(file);
 }

Using NIO

 final Path dir = PathUtils.current();
 final AccumulatorPathVisitor visitor = AccumulatorPathVisitor.withLongCounters(SymbolicLinkFileFilter.INSTANCE);
 //
 // Walk one directory
 Files.walkFileTree(dir, Collections.emptySet(), 1, visitor);
 System.out.println(visitor.getPathCounters());
 System.out.println(visitor.getFileList());
 //
 visitor.getPathCounters().reset();
 //
 // Walk directory tree
 Files.walkFileTree(dir, visitor);
 System.out.println(visitor.getPathCounters());
 System.out.println(visitor.getDirList());
 System.out.println(visitor.getFileList());

Deprecating Serialization

Serialization is deprecated and will be removed in 3.0.

Since:
2.11.0
See Also: