Re: Deleting an entire directory?

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From: Andrew Bennett
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:00

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Christopher J. Philpot wrote:

> 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.

Probably because it'd be a major pain to write and test on all platforms.

You could write a little recursive routine:

get directory contents
until end
  is it a directory?  recurse
  if it's a file, delete

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