Java 8 Streams make it simple to read a text file and print the contents to your console. The following example uses Java 8 Streams to read a file line by line and print to the console. 

simple-lines.txt
this
is
a
test
file



PrintFileContents.java
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package io.nibs.java;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class PrintFileContents {

    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
        final String fileName = "./test-files/simple-lines.txt";

        Files.lines(Paths.get(fileName))
            .forEach(System.out::println);
    }

}



console output
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this
is
a
test
file



If you are new to Java 8 Streams be sure to check out our Introduction to Streams