You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to user@commons.apache.org by sebb <se...@gmail.com> on 2008/07/01 14:57:05 UTC
Re: Commons IO FileUtils question
On 30/06/2008, Niall Pemberton <ni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Eric Hamacher
> <er...@enetrix.com> wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I took a file on my filesystem, copied and renamed it. I took the two
> > files and compared them using FileUtils.contentEquals(File, File). In
> > this case, shouldn't the method return true? If not, when would it
> > return true?
>
>
> Yes it should return true. Can you use a debugger to find out which
> line in FileUtils is returning false? Also best to say which version
> of Commons IO you are using.
>
Just a thought: if you are using a Windows file system, the copy
command can sometimes change the file, e.g. if there is an EOF (^Z)
character in the file, then copy /a will stop copying after the EOF
character.
This will show up as different file lengths.
> Niall
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Eric Hamacher
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@commons.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@commons.apache.org
>
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@commons.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@commons.apache.org
RE: Commons IO FileUtils question
Posted by Eric Hamacher <er...@enetrix.com>.
Everything is working fine now. Don't know what was going on before.
Thanks for all the feedback!
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: sebb [mailto:sebbaz@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:57 AM
To: Commons Users List
Subject: Re: Commons IO FileUtils question
On 30/06/2008, Niall Pemberton <ni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Eric Hamacher
> <er...@enetrix.com> wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I took a file on my filesystem, copied and renamed it. I took the
two
> > files and compared them using FileUtils.contentEquals(File, File).
In
> > this case, shouldn't the method return true? If not, when would it
> > return true?
>
>
> Yes it should return true. Can you use a debugger to find out which
> line in FileUtils is returning false? Also best to say which version
> of Commons IO you are using.
>
Just a thought: if you are using a Windows file system, the copy
command can sometimes change the file, e.g. if there is an EOF (^Z)
character in the file, then copy /a will stop copying after the EOF
character.
This will show up as different file lengths.
> Niall
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Eric Hamacher
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@commons.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@commons.apache.org
>
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@commons.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@commons.apache.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@commons.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@commons.apache.org