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There are times that a developer may need to change the last modified time for a file or folder. This Java programming tutorial teaches you how to perform this task. Here a simple code example showing how to modify the last modified property of files and folders in Java:
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import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.attribute.FileTime;
import java.io.*;
public class UpdateLastModifiedTime
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
UpdateLastModifiedTime updateLastModifiedTime = new UpdateLastModifiedTime();
updateLastModifiedTime.proceed();
}
private void proceed()
{
try
{
Path currDir = Paths.get("."); //Current directory
FileTime now = FileTime.fromMillis(System.currentTimeMillis());
Files.setLastModifiedTime(currDir, now);
System.out.println("Updated the last modified time for " + currDir);
}catch(IOException ioe)
{
System.out.println("Exception: " + ioe);
}
}
}
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Running this code snippet results in the following output:
[root@mypc]# java UpdateLastModifiedTime Updated the last modified time for .
