Java Utililty Methods Recursive Delete

List of utility methods to do Recursive Delete

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Description

The list of methods to do Recursive Delete are organized into topic(s).

Method

booleanrecursiveDelete(File parent)
recursive Delete 
if (parent.exists()) {
    if (parent.isDirectory()) {
        File[] files = parent.listFiles();
        for (int ifile = 0; ifile < files.length; ++ifile) {
            if (files[ifile].isDirectory()) {
                recursiveDelete(files[ifile]);
            if (files[ifile].exists()) {
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booleanrecursiveDelete(File pathToFolderOrFile)
Deletes file or folder. 
if (pathToFolderOrFile.isFile() && pathToFolderOrFile.exists()) {
    pathToFolderOrFile.delete();
} else if (pathToFolderOrFile.exists()) {
    File[] files = pathToFolderOrFile.listFiles();
    for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
        if (files[i].isDirectory()) {
            recursiveDelete(files[i]);
        } else {
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voidrecursiveDelete(File root)
Recursively delete a file and all its contents. 
if (root == null) {
    return;
if (root.isDirectory()) {
    File[] files = root.listFiles();
    if (files != null) {
        for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
            File file = files[i];
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booleanrecursiveDelete(File root)
recursive Delete 
if (root == null) {
    return true;
boolean ok = true;
if (root.isDirectory()) {
    final File[] files = root.listFiles();
    for (File file : files) {
        ok &= recursiveDelete(file);
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voidrecursiveDelete(File rootDir, boolean deleteRoot)
recursive Delete 
if ((rootDir == null) || !rootDir.isDirectory()) {
    return;
File[] childDirs = rootDir.listFiles();
if (childDirs != null) {
    for (File f : childDirs) {
        if (f.isDirectory()) {
            recursiveDelete(f, false);
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booleanrecursiveDelete(File target)
recursive Delete 
if (target.isDirectory()) {
    for (File f : target.listFiles())
        recursiveDelete(f);
return target.delete();
voidrecursiveDelete(final File directory)
Little test utility to help tests that create multiple levels of subdirectories clean up after themselves. 
for (final File f : directory.listFiles()) {
    if (f.isDirectory()) {
        recursiveDelete(f);
    f.delete();
voidrecursiveDelete(final File file, final boolean childrenOnly)
Deletes a file or recursively deletes a directory. 
recursiveDelete(file, childrenOnly, null);
booleanrecursiveDelete(final File fileOrDir)
Recursively delete file or directory 
if (fileOrDir == null) {
    return false;
if (fileOrDir.isDirectory()) {
    for (File innerFile : fileOrDir.listFiles()) {
        if (!recursiveDelete(innerFile)) {
            return false;
return fileOrDir.delete();
booleanrecursiveDelete(final File path)
Recursively delete the given path, stopping on the first error. 
if (path.isDirectory()) {
    String[] children = path.list();
    if (children == null) {
        return false;
    for (int i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
        if (!recursiveDelete(new File(path, children[i]))) {
            return false;
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