Directory deleting

[Barry Brashear]

Is there a way to delete a top level directory and all sub directories?
I think the File.delete() method only deletes empty directories.

Thanks.

[Jesper de Jong]

You mean, delete a directory with all the files and subdirectories in it with one command?

No, there is no such command in Java. You'll have to traverse directory depth first (recursively) and delete all files and directories you encounter.

[Ilja Preuss]

Or you use the FileUtils class from http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/io/

[Adam Richards]

See here for how to traverse a directory tree.