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How to delete directory in Java

If we use the NIO Files.delete to delete a non-empty directory in Java, it throws DirectoryNotEmptyException; for legacy IO File.delete to delete a non-empty directory, it returns a false. The standard solution is to loop the directory recursively, and delete all its children’s contents first (sub-files or sub-directories), and delete the parent later. This example […]

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