Get the file creation date

Question

hi friends..
i searched many forums to get file creation date
i didnt get the solution but i found one program which execute
dos command and gets the output of that.
so using that program i developed a program to get the file creation Date & Time also
//getCreationDate.java
import java.io.*;
import java.lang.*;
public class getCreationDate {
public static void main (String args[]){
  try {
     // get runtime environment and execute child process
     Runtime systemShell = Runtime.getRuntime();
      BufferedReader br1=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
      System.out.println("Enter filename: ");
      String fname=(String)br1.readLine();
     Process output = systemShell.exec("cmd /c dir "+fname);
       // open reader to get output from process
     BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(output.getInputStream()));
     String out="";
      String line = null;
      int step=1;
      while((line = br.readLine()) != null )
            if(step==6)
           out=line;
            step++;
            }          // display process output
      try{
      out=out.replaceAll(" ","");
      System.out.println("CreationDate: "+out.substring(0,10));
      System.out.println("CreationTime: "+out.substring(10,16)+"m");
      catch(StringIndexOutOfBoundsException se)
           System.out.println("File not found");
   catch (IOException ioe){ System.err.println(ioe); }
   catch (Throwable t) { t.printStackTrace();}
}

Answer 1

Following line should be modified to make it work on all platforms:
Process output = systemShell.exec("cmd /c dir "+fname);