Java Utililty Methods Delete Directory

List of utility methods to do Delete Directory

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Method

voiddeleteFiles(String directoryName)
Deletes the files in the directory, but does not remove the directory. 
File dir = new File(directoryName);
File[] files = dir.listFiles();
for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
    files[i].delete();
voiddeleteFiles(String fileName)
delete Files 
File oldPath = new File(fileName);
if (oldPath.isDirectory()) {
    File[] files = oldPath.listFiles();
    for (File file : files) {
        file.delete();
} else {
    oldPath.delete();
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voiddeleteFiles(String root, String mask)
delete Files 
deleteFiles(root, mask, false);
voiddeleteFiles(String sDir, String sSearch)
delete Files 
File dir = new File(sDir).getCanonicalFile();
File[] files = dir.listFiles();
for (File f : files) {
    if (sSearch.equals("*")) {
        f.delete();
    } else {
        String[] sHold = sSearch.split(",");
        for (String s : sHold) {
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voiddeleteFiles(String[] filenames)
Clean up - delete unzipped files that have already been included into ZIP 
File file;
if (filenames == null)
    return;
for (int i = 0; i < filenames.length; i++) {
    file = new File(filenames[i]);
    if (file.exists())
        file.delete();
voiddeleteFilesAndDir(List files)
delete Files And Dir 
File dir = files.get(0).getParentFile();
for (File file : files) {
    file.delete();
dir.delete();
voiddeleteFilesAndSubDirs(File dir)
delete Files And Sub Dirs 
if (!dir.canRead())
    return;
for (File file : dir.listFiles()) {
    if (file.isFile()) {
        System.out.println("deleting " + file.getAbsolutePath());
        file.delete();
    } else {
        if (file.isDirectory() && (file.listFiles() == null || file.listFiles().length == 0)) {
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booleandeleteFilesFromDirectory(final String dirNameIn, final String filePrefixIn)
Deletes all files in the directory but not the directory itself 
boolean fileNotDeleted = false;
String filePrefix = filePrefixIn;
if (filePrefix != null) {
    filePrefix = filePrefix.toUpperCase();
File dir = new File(dirNameIn);
if (dir.isDirectory() == false) {
    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Specified path [" + dirNameIn + "] is not a directory");
...
voiddeleteFilesInDir(File dir)
Recursively deletes all the files of the specified directory. 
deleteFilesInDir(dir, false);
voiddeleteFilesInDir(File dir)
delete Files In Dir 
validateFile(dir, false, true, false, true);
for (File f : Arrays.asList(dir.listFiles()))
    if (!f.delete())
        throw new IOException("Unable to delete: " + f);