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Apache Commons IO is a java library with simple IO utilities and filters. This requires the library commons-io-2.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using FileUtils.cleanDirectory() API. It cleans the given directory without deleting it. It deletes all files and folder in it.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_io/tests/CleanDirectory.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_io.tests;



import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;



import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;



public class CleanDirectory {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    File directory = new File("C:/Test2");

    

    //Deletes all files and folders in this directory.

    FileUtils.cleanDirectory(directory);



    System.out.println("Directory cleared successfully");

  }

}

Clean Directory