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Program: How to zip a single file?


Description:

Below example shows how to zip a file using ZipOutputStream class.


Code:
package com.java2novice.zip;

import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;

public class MyFileZip {

	public void zipFile(String filePath){
		
        FileOutputStream fos = null;
        ZipOutputStream zipOut = null;
        FileInputStream fis = null;
		try {
			fos = new FileOutputStream("C:/testing.zip");
			zipOut = new ZipOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(fos));
			File input = new File(filePath);
			fis = new FileInputStream(input);
			ZipEntry ze = new ZipEntry(input.getName());
			System.out.println("Zipping the file: "+input.getName());
			zipOut.putNextEntry(ze);
			byte[] tmp = new byte[4*1024];
			int size = 0;
			while((size = fis.read(tmp)) != -1){
				zipOut.write(tmp, 0, size);
			}
			zipOut.flush();
			zipOut.close();
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} finally{
			try{
				if(fos != null) fos.close();
				if(fis != null) fis.close();
			} catch(Exception ex){
				
			}
		}
	}
	
	public static void main(String a[]){
		
		MyFileZip mfe = new MyFileZip();
		mfe.zipFile("C:/test.txt");
	}
}

Output:
Zipping the file: test.txt
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Knowledge Centre
String Vs StringBuffer
We know that String is immutable object. We can not change the value of a String object once it is initiated. If we try to change the value of the existing String object then it creates new object rather than changing the value of the existing object. So incase, we are going to do more modificatios on String, then use StringBuffer. StringBuffer updates the existing objects value, rather creating new object.
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I'm Nataraja Gootooru, programmer by profession and passionate about technologies. All examples given here are as simple as possible to help beginners. The source code is compiled and tested in my dev environment.

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