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Utilities.empty

Deletes the contents of a folder.

This method has two variants:

• emptyFolder (Variant 1) recursively deletes the contents within a folder, and then, optionally, the folder itself.

• emptyFolder (Variant 2) recursively deletes all files that match the chosen pattern from the specified directory tree.

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Utilities.empty

Recursively deletes the contents within a folder, and then, optionally, the folder itself.

Syntax

public static final int 
emptyFolder(String path,
            boolean bDelete)

Parameters

path

The pathname of the directory whose contents are to be deleted.

bDelete

Specify true to delete the folder itself. Specify false to suppress deleting the folder itself.

Returns

Returns zero (0) on success, or error code on error.

Example

The following code empties the contents of the /tmp directory and any of its subdirectories but does not delete the /tmp itself:

if ( Utilities.emptyFolder( "/tmp", false ) )
{
    // the tmp folder is now empty
}

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Utilities.empty

Recursively deletes all files which match the chosen pattern from the specified directory tree.

Syntax

public static final int 
emptyFolder(String path,
            String pattern)

Parameters

path

The pathname of the directory whose contents are to be deleted.

pattern

The pattern you want to find and delete.

Returns

Returns zero (0) on success, or error code on error.

 

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