Accessing Folders with random name - help =(

Hello All,
I am doing some parallel computing and running i.e. 100 jobs into 100 different processors. each job is producing some random folder and putting all the output files in there. now, I need to know how can i access those random folders using java. people have been recommending AbsolutePath , use of start,etc etc, but its not working.
Thanks for your help.
p.s. folders names are numbers in ascending order i.e. and each folder contains the same files ( file1.csv file2.csv )
201032434/file1.csv
201035474/file1.csv
201042328/file1.csv
and so on..

the problem is i need to access these directories but
they have random number !! so i can't really specify
the directory and get into it...Well, they have to be stored in some specified parent directory.
Just call File.listFiles() from that parent directory and access the "random" directories.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html

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