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Copying files with the Path class

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Copying files with the Path class

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- [Instructor] One of the useful methods in the files class is the copy method, this method has options to specify how the copy should be done. In this example I am going to copy the contents of a file called example.txt which I have in my desktop folder. This contains several lines of text. I want to create a new file and copy the contents into it. First I need to create the Path variable, which I'll call source and use Paths.get and pass in the path to example.txt. I also need to make sure I have the import statements for Path and Paths. Next I want to create a file called new.txt in the same directory as example.txt so I create another Path called dest and put Paths.get and then pass in the path to the new file I want to create. All I have to do now is call the static copy method of the files class, I need to pass in my source file and my dest file and I need to make sure I have imported the files class. I also need to make sure I catch any IO exceptions. So I'll surround this with…

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