Java - Search for files in a directory

Question

This is supposed to be simple, but I can\'t get it - \"Write a program that searches for a particular file name in a given directory.\" I\'ve found a few examples of a hardc

Answer 1

This method will recursively search thru each directory starting at the root, until the fileName is found, or all remaining results come back null.

public static String searchDirForFile(String dir, String fileName) {
    File[] files = new File(dir).listFiles();
    for(File f:files) {
        if(f.isDirectory()) {
            String loc = searchDirForFile(f.getPath(), fileName);
            if(loc != null)
                return loc;
        }
        if(f.getName().equals(fileName))
            return f.getPath();
    }
    return null;
}