From c3895a58528358f5b3e453bfcdb8749c60fd08cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reinhard Pointner <rednoah@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:18:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * added file create helper function

---
 source/net/filebot/util/FileUtilities.java | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/source/net/filebot/util/FileUtilities.java b/source/net/filebot/util/FileUtilities.java
index 1b621993..8f93232c 100644
--- a/source/net/filebot/util/FileUtilities.java
+++ b/source/net/filebot/util/FileUtilities.java
@@ -156,6 +156,17 @@ public final class FileUtilities {
 		return org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.deleteQuietly(file);
 	}
 
+	public static File createFileIfNotExists(File file) throws IOException {
+		if (file.isFile()) {
+			return file;
+		}
+
+		// create parent folder structure if necessary
+		Files.createDirectories(file.getParentFile().toPath());
+		// create file
+		return Files.createFile(file.toPath()).toFile();
+	}
+
 	public static byte[] readFile(File source) throws IOException {
 		InputStream in = new FileInputStream(source);