关于这个主题的所有使用Java 8新函数的答案都忽略了关闭流。接受的答案中的例子应该是:

try (Stream<Path> filePathStream=Files.walk(Paths.get("/home/you/Desktop"))) {
    filePathStream.forEach(filePath -> {
        if (Files.isRegularFile(filePath)) {
            System.out.println(filePath);
        }
    });
}

从文件的javadoc。走路的方法:

返回的流封装了一个或多个directorystream。如果 需要及时处理文件系统资源 应该使用Try-with-resources构造来确保 流的close方法在流操作完成后调用。

给定一个baseDir，列出它下面的所有文件和目录，迭代编写。

    public static List<File> listLocalFilesAndDirsAllLevels(File baseDir) {

    List<File>  collectedFilesAndDirs   = new ArrayList<>();
    Deque<File> remainingDirs           = new ArrayDeque<>();

    if(baseDir.exists()) {
        remainingDirs.add(baseDir);

        while(!remainingDirs.isEmpty()) {
            File dir = remainingDirs.removeLast();
            List<File> filesInDir = Arrays.asList(dir.listFiles());
            for(File fileOrDir : filesInDir)  {
                collectedFilesAndDirs.add(fileOrDir);
                if(fileOrDir.isDirectory()) {
                    remainingDirs.add(fileOrDir);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    return collectedFilesAndDirs;
}

import java.io.File;


public class ReadFilesFromFolder {
  public static File folder = new File("C:/Documents and Settings/My Documents/Downloads");
  static String temp = "";

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    System.out.println("Reading files under the folder "+ folder.getAbsolutePath());
    listFilesForFolder(folder);
  }

  public static void listFilesForFolder(final File folder) {

    for (final File fileEntry : folder.listFiles()) {
      if (fileEntry.isDirectory()) {
        // System.out.println("Reading files under the folder "+folder.getAbsolutePath());
        listFilesForFolder(fileEntry);
      } else {
        if (fileEntry.isFile()) {
          temp = fileEntry.getName();
          if ((temp.substring(temp.lastIndexOf('.') + 1, temp.length()).toLowerCase()).equals("txt"))
            System.out.println("File= " + folder.getAbsolutePath()+ "\\" + fileEntry.getName());
        }

      }
    }
  }
}

File directory = new File("/user/folder");      
File[] myarray;  
myarray=new File[10];
myarray=directory.listFiles();
for (int j = 0; j < myarray.length; j++)
{
       File path=myarray[j];
       FileReader fr = new FileReader(path);
       BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
       String s = "";
       while (br.ready()) {
          s += br.readLine() + "\n";
       }
}

使用Java 1.7来递归列出命令行指定目录中的文件的简单示例:

import java.io.File;

public class List {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        for (String f : args) {
            listDir(f);
        }
    }

    private static void listDir(String dir) {
        File f = new File(dir);
        File[] list = f.listFiles();

        if (list == null) {
            return;
        }

        for (File entry : list) {
            System.out.println(entry.getName());
            if (entry.isDirectory()) {
                listDir(entry.getAbsolutePath());
            }
        }
    }
}

    static File mainFolder = new File("Folder");
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        lf.getFiles(lf.mainFolder);
    }
    public void getFiles(File f) {
        File files[];
        if (f.isFile()) {
            String name=f.getName();

        } else {
            files = f.listFiles();
            for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                getFiles(files[i]);
            }
        }
    }