Files class has a collection static method that operate on files and directories. It contains several static factory methods, method that perform read/write operations on files, deletes files, creates files, creates directory/directories, deletes files, etc.

In Java 8 several static factory and convenience methods were added to Files class.

Below are few articles that describes this methods in detail with several examples for each new method added the class.

 

1. New newBufferedReader and newBufferedWriter methods
2. readAllLines(Path path) : Read all lines of the file
3. lines() methods and Stream : Read all lines of the file lazily
4. walk() method : walking a file tree
5. find() method : Files class Find method
6. List all files in directory – 6 examples