PosixFilePermissions.asFileAttribute(Set < PosixFilePermission > perms) has the following syntax.
public static FileAttribute < Set < PosixFilePermission >> asFileAttribute(Set < PosixFilePermission > perms)
In the following code shows how to use PosixFilePermissions.asFileAttribute(Set < PosixFilePermission > perms) method.
import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Path; import java.nio.file.Paths; import java.nio.file.attribute.FileAttribute; import java.nio.file.attribute.PosixFileAttributeView; import java.nio.file.attribute.PosixFileAttributes; import java.nio.file.attribute.PosixFilePermission; import java.nio.file.attribute.PosixFilePermissions; import java.util.Set; //from ww w.j ava 2 s . c om public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Path path = Paths.get("c:/home/tutorial/Java/JavaFX/Topic.txt"); Path new_path = Paths.get("/home/tutorial/Java/JavaFX/new_Topic.txt"); PosixFileAttributes attr = Files.readAttributes(path,PosixFileAttributes.class); attr = Files.getFileAttributeView(path, PosixFileAttributeView.class) .readAttributes(); //use of asFileAttribute FileAttribute<Set<PosixFilePermission>> posixattrs = PosixFilePermissions.asFileAttribute(attr.permissions()); try { Files.createFile(new_path, posixattrs); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.println(e); } } }