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harry21's avatar
harry21
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Groovy to delete all the files in a directory

Can someone direct me how to delete all the files in a directory.. (As a prerequisite, this needs to be done before running each testcase) I've googled it and couldn't get the relevant answer. I tri...
  • IgorG's avatar
    IgorG
    8 years ago

    You are missing a couple of points here.

    1. You need to import the FileUtils class to use it.
    2. You cleanDirectory method accepts File data type, and you seem to try and pass a string.

    Here is a snippet that should work:

    import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils
File folder = new File("C:/Work/composite")
FileUtils.cleanDirectory(folder)

    There probably is a shorter way, but this seems clean enough :)

IgorG's avatar
IgorG
Staff
8 years ago

You are missing a couple of points here.

  1. You need to import the FileUtils class to use it.
  2. You cleanDirectory method accepts File data type, and you seem to try and pass a string.

Here is a snippet that should work:

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils
File folder = new File("C:/Work/composite")
FileUtils.cleanDirectory(folder)

There probably is a shorter way, but this seems clean enough :)