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JavaFile operations & binary data

Copy a file without replacing an existing destination

Java: Files.copy fails if the destination already exists unless replacement is explicitly enabled.

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Create and clean up a temporary file

Java: Create a unique file and remove it in finally even when the operation fails.

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Delete a known temporary file if present

Java: deleteIfExists returns whether a file was removed and still reports other I/O errors.

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Load a small properties configuration

Java: Use a Reader to make the configuration character encoding explicit.

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Move a file to a new name

Java: Files.move changes the path and returns the destination Path.

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Normalize relative path components

Java: Path.normalize removes redundant dot components without accessing the filesystem.

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Process a text file one line at a time

Java: Use a buffered reader to avoid loading a large file into memory.

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Read a file length in bytes

Java: Files.size inspects metadata without loading the file into a Java string.

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Visit files recursively

Java: Close the stream returned by Files.walk and sort relative paths for stable output.

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Write and read binary bytes

Java: Use the byte-oriented Files methods when text encoding should not be involved.

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