Forced Directory Deletion

[Tom Johnson]

Hi,
Is there any way to force java to delete a directory, even if its not empty - similar to

rm -f <dir_name> in unix?

Would it be just as handy to create a script with rm -f <dir_name> and call that from the java program?

Thanks

/Tom

[Henry Wong]

Originally posted by Tom Johnson:
Hi,
Is there any way to force java to delete a directory, even if its not empty - similar to

rm -f <dir_name> in unix?

Would it be just as handy to create a script with rm -f <dir_name> and call that from the java program?

Thanks

/Tom

The closest equivalent to "rm -f <dir_name>" in Windows is probably "rmdir /s/q <dir_name>".

Henry

[Tom Johnson]

Hi,
Is that not just a DOS command? - I meant a piece of java code or API to allow me to to it

/tom

[Joanne Neal]

I think you would have to recursively delete the contents of the directory, before deleting the directory itself.

[Henry Wong]

Originally posted by Tom Johnson:
Hi,
Is that not just a DOS command? - I meant a piece of java code or API to allow me to to it

/tom

Sorry... I was under the impression that you were calling Runtime.exec() under unix, and needed the equivalent for DOS.

Henry