Here you can find the source of deleteRecursively(File name)
public static void deleteRecursively(File name)
//package com.java2s; /*/* ww w . ja v a 2s . c o m*/ * JacORB - a free Java ORB * * Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Gerald Brose / The JacORB Team. * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Library General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. * */ import java.io.File; import java.io.FileFilter; public class Main { public static void deleteRecursively(File name) { if (name.isDirectory()) { File[] subdirs = name.listFiles(new FileFilter() { @Override public boolean accept(File pathname) { return pathname.isDirectory(); } }); for (int i = 0; i < subdirs.length; ++i) { deleteRecursively(subdirs[i]); } File[] files = name.listFiles(new FileFilter() { @Override public boolean accept(File pathname) { return pathname.isFile(); } }); for (int i = 0; i < files.length; ++i) { files[i].delete(); } name.delete(); } if (name.isFile()) { name.delete(); } } }