How to read a file as a byte array in Scala

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Java 7:

import java.nio.file.{Files, Paths}

val byteArray = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("/path/to/file"))

I believe this is the simplest way possible. Just leveraging existing tools here. NIO.2 is wonderful.

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