Java File Viewer

A lightweight console utility written in Java using only terminal that reads a text file, prints its content, and extracts comprehensive file metadata and text statistics.

🎯 Project Goals

This is a personal learning project built to achieve the following objectives:

1. Practice core Java programming concepts, specifically file I/O operations (java.nio).
2. Master version control workflows by interacting with Git entirely through the terminal (initializing repositories, staging changes, writing structured commit messages, managing .gitignore, and pushing to GitHub).

🚀 Features

• Content Streaming: Displays file contents directly in the console with explicit UTF-8 encoding support.
• Single-Pass Performance: Collects all text statistics efficiently in a single file read.
• Detailed Metadata:
  • File timestamps (creation, last access, and last modification times).
  • File attributes (type verification and read/write permission status).
  • Formatted file size dynamically scaled to B, KB, or MB.
  • Text metrics including precise line, word, and non-whitespace character counts.

📦 Running via Terminal

1. Compile the source code (run from the project root directory):

   javac -d bin src/Main.java

2. Execute the application by passing the path to a target file as an argument:

   java -cp bin Main story.txt