How to get only 10 last modified files from directory using Java?
<p>i'm beginner and i found an old thread about lastmodified files in java.
What i want is to get only 10 recent files from a directory and move them to another directory.</p>

<p>This code found in this forum is working well but it gets all files from a directory and sort them with date.</p>

<p>Any help will be aprreciated,
thank you</p>

<p>Here is the code:</p>

<pre><code>import java.io.File;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;


public class Newest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        File dir = new File("C:\\your\\dir");
        File [] files  = dir.listFiles();
        Arrays.sort(files, new Comparator(){
            public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
                return compare( (File)o1, (File)o2);
            }
            private int compare( File f1, File f2){
                long result = f2.lastModified() - f1.lastModified();
                if( result &gt; 0 ){
                    return 1;
                } else if( result &lt; 0 ){
                    return -1;
                } else {
                    return 0;
                }
            }
        });
        System.out.println( Arrays.asList(files ));
    }
}
</code></pre>

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<p>i'm beginner here sorry if made some mistakes using the forum.</p>

<p>so for me i don't know how to insert the above in a new code.</p>

<p>And if i keep the first code, i would like to store the 10 recents files into another folder,
i trie this but it puts all files in the directory.</p>

<p>any help please</p>

<p>Thank you</p>

<pre><code>import java.io.File;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;




    public class Newest
    {
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
            File dir = new File("c:\\File");
            File[] files = dir.listFiles();
            Arrays.sort(files, new Comparator&lt;File&gt;()
            {
                public int compare(File f1, File f2)
                {
                    return Long.valueOf(f2.lastModified()).compareTo
                            (
                            f1.lastModified());
                }
            });
            //System.out.println(Arrays.asList(files));
            for(int i=0, length=Math.min(files.length, 12); i&lt;length; i++) {
        System.out.println(files[i]);


    for (File f : files) {
            System.out.println(f.getName() + " " + sdf.format(new Date(f.lastModified())));
            File dir = new File("c://Target");
            boolean success = f.renameTo(new File(dir,f.getName()));
            if (!success)


            }
        }
    } 
</code></pre>
