Delete Directory 

The following example shows how to delete a non empty directory. The delete method deletes the directory if and only if the directory is empty. To delete a non empty directory, we need to recursive delete all its content and finally the actually directory.

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/io/DeleteDirectory.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.io; import java.io.File; public class DeleteDirectory {   /**    * @param args    */   public static void main(String[] args) {     File dir2Delete = new File("C:\\ABC");     //dir2Delete.delete() returns     //true if and only if the file or directory is successfully deleted; false otherwise      //NOTE : The directory will not be deleted unless the directory is empty     //       So to delete a directory we need to delete its contents recursively.     System.out.println("File deleted successfully : " + dir2Delete.delete());          /**      * Delete the directory content recursively.      */     System.out.println("File deleted successfully : " + deleteDirectory(dir2Delete));   }      public static boolean deleteDirectory(File file2Delete) {     //Delete contents of directory if the current     //file referring is a directory     if (file2Delete.isDirectory()) {              File [] children = file2Delete.listFiles();              for (int i = 0 ; i < children.length ; i ++) {         deleteDirectory(children[i]);       }     }          return file2Delete.delete();   } }

File deleted successfully : false
File deleted successfully : true