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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.forceDelete() API. It deletes the given file or directory recursively. Throws IOException if the file or directory cannot be deleted.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_io/tests/ForceDelete.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 ForceDelete {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   */

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

    File file = new File("C:/Test.java");

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

    

    //Deletes this file or directory

    FileUtils.forceDelete(file);

    FileUtils.forceDelete(directory);

    System.out.println("Deleted successfully");

  }

}

Force Delete