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In computing, input/output, or I/O, refers to the communication between an information processing system (such as a computer), and the outside world, possibly a human, or another information processing system.

In computing, input/output, or I/O, refers to the communication between an information processing system (such as a computer), and the outside world, possibly a human, or another information processing system.

(Source: Wikipedia [Input/Output])

I/O includes tasks such as:

  • Reading and writing files ()
  • Interacting with a user through a command-line terminal session ( / / )
  • Connecting programs so that one sends its output to the next (s)
  • Sending data over a network in packets or as a data stream ()

For the Io language, see

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How do I read / convert an InputStream into a String in Java?

If you have a java.io.InputStream object, how should you process that object and produce a String? Suppose I have an InputStream that contains text data, and I want to convert it to a String, so for example I can write that to a log file. What is…
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Looping through the content of a file in Bash

How do I iterate through each line of a text file with Bash? With this script: echo "Start!" for p in (peptides.txt) do echo "${p}" done I get this output on the screen: Start! ./runPep.sh: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token…
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How do I create a Java string from the contents of a file?

I've been using the idiom below for some time now. And it seems to be the most wide-spread, at least on the sites I've visited. Is there a better/different way to read a file into a string in Java? private String readFile(String file) throws…
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How to redirect output to a file and stdout

In bash, calling foo would display any output from that command on the stdout. Calling foo > output would redirect any output from that command to the file specified (in this case 'output'). Is there a way to redirect output to a file and have it…
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How can I read a large text file line by line using Java?

I need to read a large text file of around 5-6 GB line by line using Java. How can I do this quickly?
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How do I check if a file exists in Java?

How can I check whether a file exists, before opening it for reading in Java (the equivalent of Perl's -e $filename)? The only similar question on SO deals with writing the file and was thus answered using FileWriter which is obviously not…
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Scanner is skipping nextLine() after using next() or nextFoo()?

I am using the Scanner methods nextInt() and nextLine() for reading input. It looks like this: System.out.println("Enter numerical value"); int option; option = input.nextInt(); // Read numerical value from input System.out.println("Enter 1st…
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How to read all files in a folder from Java?

How to read all the files in a folder through Java?
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How to append text to an existing file in Java?

I need to append text repeatedly to an existing file in Java. How do I do that?
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Get an OutputStream into a String

What's the best way to pipe the output from an java.io.OutputStream to a String in Java? Say I have the method: writeToStream(Object o, OutputStream out) Which writes certain data from the object to the given stream. However, I want to get this…
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Calculate the execution time of a method

Possible Duplicate: How do I measure how long a function is running? I have an I/O time-taking method which copies data from a location to another. What's the best and most real way of calculating the execution time? Thread? Timer? Stopwatch? Any…
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StringIO in Python3

I am using Python 3.2.1 and I can't import the StringIO module. I use io.StringIO and it works, but I can't use it with numpy's genfromtxt like this: x="1 3\n 4.5 8" numpy.genfromtxt(io.StringIO(x)) I get the following error: TypeError:…
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A non-blocking read on a subprocess.PIPE in Python

I'm using the subprocess module to start a subprocess and connect to its output stream (standard output). I want to be able to execute non-blocking reads on its standard output. Is there a way to make .readline non-blocking or to check if there is…
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How do I get the file extension of a file in Java?

Just to be clear, I'm not looking for the MIME type. Let's say I have the following input: /path/to/file/foo.txt I'd like a way to break this input up, specifically into .txt for the extension. Is there any built in way to do this in Java? I would…
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Easy way to write contents of a Java InputStream to an OutputStream

I was surprised to find today that I couldn't track down any simple way to write the contents of an InputStream to an OutputStream in Java. Obviously, the byte buffer code isn't difficult to write, but I suspect I'm just missing something which…
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