为了扩展已接受的答案，我将文件名存储到一个数组列表中(而不是仅仅将它们转储到System.out.println)，我创建了一个帮助类“MyFileUtils”，这样它就可以被其他项目导入:

class MyFileUtils {
    public static void loadFilesForFolder(final File folder, List<String> fileList){
        for (final File fileEntry : folder.listFiles()) {
            if (fileEntry.isDirectory()) {
                loadFilesForFolder(fileEntry, fileList);
            } else {
                fileList.add( fileEntry.getParent() + File.separator + fileEntry.getName() );
            }
        }
    }
}

我在文件名中添加了完整路径。 你可以这样使用它:

import MyFileUtils;

List<String> fileList = new ArrayList<String>();
final File folder = new File("/home/you/Desktop");
MyFileUtils.loadFilesForFolder(folder, fileList);

// Dump file list values
for (String fileName : fileList){
    System.out.println(fileName);
}

数组列表是通过“value”传递的，但是value是用来指向JVM堆中的同一个数组列表对象的。这样，每次递归调用都将文件名添加到同一个ArrayList中(我们并不是在每次递归调用时创建一个新的ArrayList)。

import java.io.File;


public class ReadFilesFromFolder {
  public static File folder = new File("C:/Documents and Settings/My Documents/Downloads");
  static String temp = "";

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    System.out.println("Reading files under the folder "+ folder.getAbsolutePath());
    listFilesForFolder(folder);
  }

  public static void listFilesForFolder(final File folder) {

    for (final File fileEntry : folder.listFiles()) {
      if (fileEntry.isDirectory()) {
        // System.out.println("Reading files under the folder "+folder.getAbsolutePath());
        listFilesForFolder(fileEntry);
      } else {
        if (fileEntry.isFile()) {
          temp = fileEntry.getName();
          if ((temp.substring(temp.lastIndexOf('.') + 1, temp.length()).toLowerCase()).equals("txt"))
            System.out.println("File= " + folder.getAbsolutePath()+ "\\" + fileEntry.getName());
        }

      }
    }
  }
}

只需使用“文件”遍历所有“文件”。walkFileTree (java7)

Files.walkFileTree(Paths.get(dir), new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {
    @Override
    public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {
        System.out.println("file: " + file);
        return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
    }
});

File folder = new File("/Users/you/folder/");
File[] listOfFiles = folder.listFiles();

for (File file : listOfFiles) {
    if (file.isFile()) {
        System.out.println(file.getName());
    }
}

java.io.FileFilter的用法很好，见https://stackoverflow.com/a/286001/146745

File fl = new File(dir);
File[] files = fl.listFiles(new FileFilter() {          
    public boolean accept(File file) {
        return file.isFile();
    }
});

public static List<File> files(String dirname) {
    if (dirname == null) {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }

    File dir = new File(dirname);
    if (!dir.exists()) {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }

    if (!dir.isDirectory()) {
        return Collections.singletonList(file(dirname));
    }

    return Arrays.stream(Objects.requireNonNull(dir.listFiles()))
        .collect(Collectors.toList());
}