find file with * on the path

[itaipee]

Hello

I need to check if there are files in path that in the the format that might contain "*" .
( for example
/tmp/*/1224/*.doc
mathing path can be /tmp/dir1/1224/abcd.doc

in linux is very simple ( set files = "/tmp/*/1224/*.doc" )

How can I do it in java without start searching for "*" and buliding lops?

[Eranga]

A challange: I need to check if there are files in path that in the the format that might contain "*" .

Is this an assignment of yours or, just want to share with others? If you want to share your knowledge on this, this is not the correct sub-forum. Let me know I'll move this thread.

[itaipee]

Is this an assignment of yours or, just want to share with others?

I dont know how to do it in java ( can do this search in in perl and unix shell but not in java )

If you want to share your knowledge on this

I don't have so much knowledge in java to start share ..

[Eranga]

Normally in Windows * sign stand for all the possibilities.

If the path is something like this, dir/* what you have to do is search all the folders in dir

In Java you can do this in several ways.

import java.io.File;

class ListFiles {
      File directoryOfFiles = new File("dir"); // directoryOfFiles contains relevant object

      if(directoryOfFiles.isDirectory() { // Validate for directoty 
            String filenames[] = directoryOfFiles.list(); //make array of filenames.
      }
}

[itaipee]

I tried to avoid lops. otherwise search like that for example will require 3 lops

/database/*/info/*/*.txt

the line to search is not known in the compliation phase so I don't know I much lop to make

[Eranga]

Actually you no need to use any loops. As I shown in the above example, in one File constructor you can do all.

[itaipee]

you totally miss my point

File.list will be good for looking of all files in directory.
My case is that the directory is unknown - but the file itself is known

let say you have under the /database/ , you have 100 directory with integer name ( /database/1/ /database/2/... ) and under each one there might be ( with emphasis on might be ) sub dir called target. on the target dir , there might be file called target_file.

I want to look for /database/*/target/target_file.

I'm working to sovle it now with lops , and its ugly solution.

[Eranga]

In simple words, you know the target and you want to find the dir path, am I correct?