Java File Delete nio deleteFileRescursive(File file)

Description

delete File Rescursive

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static boolean deleteFileRescursive(File file) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   w  w  w .j  a v a2 s . c  o  m*/
 * Copyright (c) 2018 Waritnan Sookbuntherng
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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 * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 *
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import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Files;

public class Main {
    public static boolean deleteFileRescursive(File file) {
        return deleteFileRescursive(file, true);
    }

    public static boolean deleteFileRescursive(File file, boolean safeDelete) {
        String path = file.getAbsolutePath();
        if (safeDelete && (path.equals("/") || path.equals(System.getProperty("user.home")))) {
            throw new RuntimeException(
                    "Did you really trying to remove entire filesystem? or user's home directory?");
        }

        if (!file.exists()) {
            return true;
        }

        if (file.isFile() || Files.isSymbolicLink(file.toPath())) {
            return file.delete();
        }

        File[] files = file.listFiles();
        if (files == null) {
            return false;
        }

        for (File f : files) {
            if (!deleteFileRescursive(f)) {
                return false;
            }
        }

        return file.delete();
    }
}

Related

1. deleteFile(File f)
2. deleteFile(File f)
3. deleteFile(String fileName)
4. deleteFile(String filename)
5. deleteFileCascade(String directory)
6. deleteFiles(File directory, String affix)
7. deleteIfEmpty(final File directory)
8. deleteLocalFile(final String fileName)
9. deleteLocalFileOrDirectory(File file)