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Delete a File
Posted on: February 27, 2008 at 12:00 AM

In this section, you will learn how a specified file or directory is deleted. For deleting a file from a directory you need to give the file name to be deleted.

Delete a File

In this section, you will learn how a specified file or directory is deleted. For deleting a file from a directory you need to give the file name to be deleted.

Description of program:

The following code of program deletes a file from a directory. In this program the compiler will ask to enter the name of the file to be deleted. For this we have used "BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));" method as you very well know about it. If the file exists in the directory then it will be deleted otherwise we will get a message that "file was not successfully deleted".


import java.io.File;

import java.io.*;



public class DeletingFile {

  public static void main(String args[])throws IOException{

  BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new 

  InputStreamReader(System.in));

  System.out.print("Enter the file name to delete:");

  String file_name = in.readLine();

  File file = new File("File already exist!");

  boolean exist = file.createNewFile();

 if (!exist){

 System.out.println("File was successfully deleted.\n");

 } else {

 System.out.println("File was not successfully deleted.\n");

 }

 }

}

Output of the program:

C:\unique>javac DeletingFile.java

C:\unique>java DeletingFile
Enter the file name to delete:wonderful.txt
File was successfully deleted.

C:\unique>

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