Java Force Delete forceDelete(File file)

Description

Recursively delete file

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
file	the file to delete

Return

true if the deletion completed successfully (ie if the file does not exist on the filesystem after this call), false if a deletion was not performed successfully.

Declaration

public static boolean forceDelete(File file) 

Method Source Code

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

public class Main {
    /**
     * Recursively delete file
     * 
     * @param file
     *            the file to delete
     * @return true if the deletion completed successfully (ie if the file does not exist on the
     *         filesystem after this call), false if a deletion was not performed successfully.
     */
    public static boolean forceDelete(File file) {
        if (!file.exists()) {
            return true;
        }
        if (file.isDirectory()) {
            File[] files = file.listFiles();
            if (files != null) {
                for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                    if (!forceDelete(files[i])) {
                        return false;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return file.delete();
    }
}

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