Hi guys it's my first time here, I hope you guys can help me out with my question.
I'm to write a program that copies a file, I've already done that it works at copying but what I need help with is the professor wants to be able to do this from the command line:
java FileCopy sourceFileName.txt to destinationFileName.txt
How do i get my program to respond to such command from command prompt?
This is my code it copies the file when it's run from Eclipse,
Code:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
public class FileCopy
{
String srcFileName;
String dstFileName;
String line;
BufferedReader source;
PrintWriter destination;
File fileSource;
File destinationFile;
public FileCopy(String src, String dest)
{
this.srcFileName = src;
this.dstFileName = dest;
fileSource = new File(this.srcFileName);
destinationFile = new File(this.dstFileName);
try
{
this.copyFile();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private boolean openFile()
{
try
{
if (fileSource.exists())
{
source = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileSource));
return true;
}
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e)
{
e.getMessage();
}
return false;
}
private boolean copyFile() throws IOException
{
if (this.openFile() == true)
{
try
{
destination = new PrintWriter(destinationFile);
do
{
line = source.readLine();
if (line != null)
{
destination.write(line + "\n");
}
}
while (line != null);
source.close();
destination.close();
return true;
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e)
{
e.getMessage();
}
}
return false;
}
public static void main (String[] args)
{
FileCopy newCopy = new FileCopy("sourceFile.txt", "destinationFile.txt");
}
}