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The moveFileToDirectory() method of the FileUtils class of the ApacheSW Commons IOS library can be used to move a file to a directory. It takes the source file as its first argument. It takes the destination directory as its second argument. It takes a boolean as its third argument, which specifies if the destination directory should be created if it doesn't already exist.

The MoveFileToDirectoryTest class demonstrates this.

MoveFileToDirectoryTest.java

package test;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

public class MoveFileToDirectoryTest {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

		File sourceFile = new File("directory-source/test1.txt");
		File destinationDir = new File("directory-destination");

		FileUtils.moveFileToDirectory(sourceFile, destinationDir, true);

	}

}

Before MoveFileToDirectoryTest is run, we can see that the test1.txt file exists in the directory-source directory.

After MoveFileToDirectoryTest is executed, we can see that the directory-destination directory has been created and that the test1.txt file has been moved to this directory. The directory-source directory is now empty.