Java - Deleting a File or Directory

Java - Deleting a File or Directory

You can delete files, directories or links.

The Files class provides two deletion methods.

delete(Path) method:

The delete(Path) method deletes the file or throws an exception if the deletion fails.
try {
    Files.delete(path);
} catch (NoSuchFileException x) {
    System.err.format("%s: no such" + " file or directory%n", path);
} catch (DirectoryNotEmptyException x) {
    System.err.format("%s not empty%n", path);
} catch (IOException x) {
    // File permission problems are caught here.
    System.err.println(x);
}

deleteIfExists(Path):

The deleteIfExists(Path) method also deletes the file, but if the file does not exist, no exception is thrown. Failing silently is useful when you have multiple threads deleting files and you don't want to throw an exception just because one thread did so first.