How to Load files from BeanShell?

Question

How do I iterate the directory contents and put each file into a List or other collection?

thufir@dur:~/beanshell$ 
thufir@dur:~/beanshell$ bsh list_ebooks.bsh 
ebook files to iterate
rw_ Dec 19   368225 1 - foundation - isaac asimov.epub
rw_ Dec 19   395042 2 - foundation and empire - isaac asimov.epub
rw_ Dec 19   374631 3 - second foundation -  isaac asimov.epub
rw_ Dec 19  2084565 4 - foundation's edge -  isaac asimov.epub
rw_ Dec 19  2125777 5 - foundation and earth -  isaac asimov.epub
rw_ Dec 19  2187662 6 - prelude to foundation -  isaac asimov.epub
rw_ Dec 19  2173565 7 - forward to foundation -  isaac asimov.epub
thufir@dur:~/beanshell$ 
thufir@dur:~/beanshell$ cat list_ebooks.bsh 


print("ebook files to iterate");

dir("/home/thufir/ebooks/foundation/");


thufir@dur:~/beanshell$ 

To bulk convert the format (although BeanShell might be overkill).

BeanShell will Load the file? The fine manual:

Working with Dirctories and Paths BeanShell supports the notion of a current working directory for commands that work with files. The cd() command can be used to change the working directory and pwd() can be used to display the current value. The BeanShell current working directory is stored in the variable bsh.cwd.

All commands that work with files respect the working directory, including the following:

dir()
source()
run(),
cat()
load()
save()
mv()
rm()
addClassPath()

pathToFile() As a convenience for writing your own scripts and commands you can use the pathToFile() command to translate a relative file path to an absolute one relative to the current working directory. Absolute paths are unmodified.

absfilename = pathToFile( filename );

Import apache file utils?

It cannot be done with streams.

Answer 1

Assuming you have to avoid Streams you can go back to old java.io.File.listFiles() method:

List<File> result = new ArrayList<>();
File dir = new File("/tmp");
File[] files = dir.listFiles();
if (files != null) {
    for (File f : files) {
        if (f.isFile()) {
            result.add(f);
        }
    }
}
System.out.println(result);