I am currently trying to recursively delete a directory... Strangely enough the shortest piece of code I was able to find is the following construct, employing an *ad-hoc inner class* and in a *visitor pattern*...


	Path rootPath = Paths.get(&quot;data/to-delete&quot;);

	try {
	  Files.walkFileTree(rootPath, new SimpleFileVisitor&lt;Path&gt;() {
		@Override
		public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException {
		  System.out.println(&quot;delete file: &quot; + file.toString());
		  Files.delete(file);
		  return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
		}

		@Override
		public FileVisitResult postVisitDirectory(Path dir, IOException exc) throws IOException {
		  Files.delete(dir);
		  System.out.println(&quot;delete dir: &quot; + dir.toString());
		  return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
		}
	  });
	} catch(IOException e){
	  e.printStackTrace();
	}

Source: [here][1]

This feels horribly clumsy and verbose, given that the new `nio` APIs remove so much clutter and boilerplate...

**Is there any shorter way of achieving a forced, recursive directory delete?**

I&#39;m looking for pure native Java 1.8 methods, so please don&#39;t link to external libraries...

  [1]: http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-nio/files.html#deleting-directories-recursively

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This is currently what I have to delete the file but it&#39;s not working. I thought it may be permission problems or something but it wasn&#39;t. The file that I am testing with is empty and exists, so not sure why it doesn&#39;t delete it.

    UserInput.prompt(&quot;Enter name of file to delete&quot;);
    String name = UserInput.readString();
    File file = new File(&quot;\\Files\\&quot; + name + &quot;.txt&quot;);
    file.delete();

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

I now have:

     

    File file = new File(catName + &quot;.txt&quot;);
    String path = file.getCanonicalPath();
    File filePath = new File(path);
    filePath.delete();

To try and find the correct path at run time so that if the program is transferred to a different computer it will still find the file.

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Something like this?

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My initial commit contained some log files. I&#39;ve added `*log` to my `.gitignore`, and now I want to remove the log files from my repository.

    git rm mylogfile.log

will remove a file from the repository, but will also remove it from the local file system.

How can I remove this file from the repo **without** deleting my local copy of the file?

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The below code only deletes the first file it gets inside the web dir. I want to remove all the files and folders inside the web directory and retain the web directory. How can I do that? 

```lang-yml
- name: remove web dir contents
    file: path=&#39;/home/mydata/web/{{ item }}&#39; state=absent
    with_fileglob:
      - /home/mydata/web/*
```

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    @DEL D:\PHP_Projects\testproject\Release\testfolder*.*

Can anybody help?





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    for /r %R in (.svn) do if exist %R (rd /s /q &quot;%R&quot;)


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2. delete it?

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After going through and cleaning my disk with old things that I didn&#39;t need anymore, I came across the `iOS&#160;DeviceSupport` folder in `~/Library/Developer/Xcode` which was taking nearly 20&#160;GB.

A similar question [has been asked before][1], but since then many things have changed and I would like an up-to-date answer.

As long as I have the version I use for testing, can I delete the older/unused versions without breaking anything? 

![iOS&#160;DeviceSupport contents][2]

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5302789/can-i-remove-previous-versions-of-iphone-support-in-devicesupport-folder-in-xcod/
[2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/YE3u3.png

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I have uploaded a font file that I don&#39;t have the rights to distribute to git hub several updates ago. 

I have a relatively inactive repository and I have the ability to notify all of my members if necessary. I&#39;ve tried several of the solutions. I need to delete a file in my directory called `Resources\Video\%font%.ttf` where `%font%` is the name of the plain, italicized and bold versions of the font. What commands do I use?

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I&#39;ve a directory with many number of 0 byte files in it. I can&#39;t even see the files when I use the ls command. I&#39;m using a small script to delete these files but sometimes that does not even delete these files. Here is the script:

    i=100
    while [ $i -le 999 ];do
        rm -f file${i}*;
        let i++;
    done

Is there any other way to do this more quickly?

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Is there any way to automatically delete all files or folders with few R command lines?
I am aware of the `unlink()` or `file.remove()` functions, but for those you need to define a character vector with exactly all the names of the files you want to delete.  I am looking more for something that lists all the files or folders within a specific path (e.g. &#39;C:/Temp&#39;) and then delete all files with a certain name (regardless of its extension).

Any help is very much appreciated!



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I have 2 directories on my GitHub repository. I&#39;d like to delete one of them. How could I do that without deleting and re-creating entire repository?

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I&#39;m on 4.4.2, trying to delete a file (image) via uri. Here&#39;s my code:

    File file = new File(uri.getPath());
    boolean deleted = file.delete();
    if(!deleted){
          boolean deleted2 = file.getCanonicalFile().delete();
          if(!deleted2){
               boolean deleted3 = getApplicationContext().deleteFile(file.getName());
          }
    }

Right now, none of these delete functions is actually deleting the file. I also have this in my AndroidManifest.xml:

    &lt;uses-permission android:name=&quot;android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;uses-permission android:name=&quot;android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE&quot; /&gt;
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I made something very stupid.
I made a commit using git commit (file edits + new files) (C).
Then I made amend last commit.
Then I deleted all files recursively (!) using `git rm -r`
Then I made another git commit (C).

&lt;pre&gt;
A-B-C
    ↑
  master
&lt;/pre&gt;

Is there any way to undelete the files but keep the changes I had in my first commit? (C)
I&#39;d rather do not go back to (B).
I tried git reset --soft head^, so then the git status lists files I deleted, then I did git checkout, but still no luck. I don&#39;t even know if it&#39;s possible.


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