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Deleting an entire directory?

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From: Christopher J. Philpot
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 00:00
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Hey,

I noticed that the File class in the JDK does not have a method for
deleting full directories.  I have been trying for about 3 hours to
create my own delete full directory method, but have been having major
problems.  I decided that I need to search the files in the directory I
want to delete, delete all the empty directories and regular
files(pretty easy), then look for subdirectories that contain files and
other subdirectories and delete those, then go into the subdirectories
in that subdirectory that contain files and other subdirectories... It
gets pretty complicated :).
So here's my question.  Has anyone already had to do this and have some
source code you could post?  I have no idea why Sun didn't just add a
File.deleteDirectory class.

Please let me know!

Thanks,
Christopher Philpot
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From: "Christopher J. Philpot" <cphilpot@usa.net>
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Date: 1998/01/14
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