The Java Developers Almanac 1.4

e24. Renaming a File or Directory

    // File (or directory) with old name
    File file = new File("oldname");
    
    // File (or directory) with new name
    File file2 = new File("newname");
    
    // Rename file (or directory)
    boolean success = file.renameTo(file2);
    if (!success) {
        // File was not successfully renamed
    }

Related Examples

e19. Determining If a File or Directory Exists
e20. Creating a File
e21. Getting the Size of a File
e22. Deleting a File
e23. Creating a Temporary File
e25. Moving a File or Directory to Another Directory
e26. Getting and Setting the Modification Time of a File or Directory
e27. Forcing Updates to a File to the Disk

See also: Directories    Encodings    Filenames and Pathnames    Parsing    Reading and Writing    Serialization

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