如果你有Spring，你可以使用filesystemutils . deleterecursive:

import org.springframework.util.FileSystemUtils;

boolean success = FileSystemUtils.deleteRecursively(new File("directory"));

在Guava 9之前，Guava一直支持files . deleterecursive (File)。

来自番石榴10:

弃用。该方法存在符号链接检测差和竞态条件差的问题。只有使用操作系统命令(如rm -rf或del /s)才能适当地支持此功能。这个方法计划在Guava 11.0版本中从Guava中移除。

因此，在番石榴11中没有这种方法。

也许这个问题的解决方案是使用erickson回答中的代码重新实现File类的delete方法:

public class MyFile extends File {

  ... <- copy constructor

  public boolean delete() {
    if (f.isDirectory()) {
      for (File c : f.listFiles()) {
        return new MyFile(c).delete();
      }
    } else {
        return f.delete();
    }
  }
}

在Java 7中，我们终于可以通过可靠的符号链接检测来做到这一点。(我不认为Apache的commons-io现在有可靠的符号链接检测，因为它不处理Windows上用mklink创建的链接。)

出于历史原因，这里有一个java 7之前的答案，它遵循符号链接。

void delete(File f) throws IOException {
  if (f.isDirectory()) {
    for (File c : f.listFiles())
      delete(c);
  }
  if (!f.delete())
    throw new FileNotFoundException("Failed to delete file: " + f);
}

番石榴21.0及以上版本

有一个void deleterecursive (Path Path, RecursiveDeleteOption…)options)会抛出从Guava 21.0开始可用的MoreFiles类的IOException静态方法。

请参阅Javadoc文档:

public static void deleteRecursively(Path path, RecursiveDeleteOption... options) throws IOException Deletes the file or directory at the given path recursively. Deletes symbolic links, not their targets (subject to the caveat below). If an I/O exception occurs attempting to read, open or delete any file under the given directory, this method skips that file and continues. All such exceptions are collected and, after attempting to delete all files, an IOException is thrown containing those exceptions as suppressed exceptions.

您应该查看Apache的commons-io。它有一个FileUtils类，可以做你想做的事情。

FileUtils.deleteDirectory(new File("directory"));