You can delete files and folders recursively like this: void deleteRecursive(File fileOrDirectory) { if (fileOrDirectory.isDirectory()) for (File child : fileOrDirectory.listFiles()) deleteRecursive(child); fileOrDirectory.delete(); }
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force some_dir does indeed work as advertised here. rm -r -fo some_dir are shorthand aliases that work too. As far as I understood it, the -Recurse parameter just doesn’t work correctly when you try deleting a filtered set of files recursively. For killing a single dir and everything below it seems to work … Read more
You should check out Apache’s commons-io. It has a FileUtils class that will do what you want. FileUtils.deleteDirectory(new File(“directory”));