Chapter 9. Accessing Files and Directories
In this chapter, you'll explore how you identify, access, and manipulate files and directories on your hard drive. This will include the ability to create new files and directories, but not to read or write files. You'll get to that starting in the next chapter.
In this chapter you will learn:
How you create File objects and use them to examine files and directories
How you can use File class methods to examine the contents of the hard drives on your system
How to create new files and directories on your hard drive
How to create temporary files
How you create FileOutputStream objects
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