Java Recursive Delete recursiveDelete(File f)

Description

recursiveDelete just recursively deletes a dir - you'd think Java would have something to do this??

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
f	- the file/dir to delete

Declaration

static public void recursiveDelete(File f) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class Main {
    /**
     * recursiveDelete
     *
     * just recursively deletes a dir - you'd think Java would have something to
     * do this??
     *
     * @param f
     *          - the file/dir to delete
     * @exception IOException
     *              propogate f.delete() exceptions
     *
     */
    static public void recursiveDelete(File f) throws IOException {
        if (f.isDirectory()) {
            File fs[] = f.listFiles();
            for (File subf : fs) {
                recursiveDelete(subf);
            }
        }
        if (!f.delete()) {
            throw new IOException("could not delete: " + f.getPath());
        }
    }
}

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