处理异常的最佳解决方案是，方法抛出的异常应该总是描述该方法试图(和失败)做什么:

private void deleteRecursive(File f) throws Exception {
    try {
        if (f.isDirectory()) {
            for (File c : f.listFiles()) {
                deleteRecursive(c);
            }
        }
        if (!f.delete()) {
            throw new Exception("Delete command returned false for file: " + f);
        }
    } 
    catch (Exception e) {
        throw new Exception("Failed to delete the folder: " + f, e);
    }
}

使用符号链接和上面的代码失败的两种方式…也不知道怎么解决。

方法# 1

运行这个来创建一个测试:

echo test > testfile
mkdir dirtodelete
ln -s badlink dirtodelete/badlinktodelete

下面你可以看到你的测试文件和测试目录:

$ ls testfile dirtodelete
testfile

dirtodelete:
linktodelete

然后运行common -io deleteDirectory()。它崩溃，说文件没有找到。不知道其他例子是怎么做的。Linux的rm命令会简单地删除链接，目录上的rm -r也会删除链接。

Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: File does not exist: /tmp/dirtodelete/linktodelete

方法# 2

运行这个来创建一个测试:

mkdir testdir
echo test > testdir/testfile
mkdir dirtodelete
ln -s ../testdir dirtodelete/dirlinktodelete

下面你可以看到你的测试文件和测试目录:

$ ls dirtodelete testdir
dirtodelete:
dirlinktodelete

testdir:
testfile

然后运行common -io deleteDirectory()或人们发布的示例代码。它不仅会删除目录，还会删除位于被删除目录之外的testfile。(它隐式地取消对目录的引用，并删除内容)。Rm -r只会删除链接。你需要使用类似这样的方法删除被解引用的文件:"find -L dirtodelete -type f -exec rm {} \;"

$ ls dirtodelete testdir
ls: cannot access dirtodelete: No such file or directory
testdir:

在遗留项目中，我需要创建本地Java代码。我创建了类似于Paulitex代码的代码。看到:

public class FileHelper {

   public static boolean delete(File fileOrFolder) {
      boolean result = true;
      if(fileOrFolder.isDirectory()) {
         for (File file : fileOrFolder.listFiles()) {
            result = result && delete(file);
         }
      }
      result = result && fileOrFolder.delete();
      return result;
   } 
}

单元测试:

public class FileHelperTest {

    @Before
    public void setup() throws IOException {
       new File("FOLDER_TO_DELETE/SUBFOLDER").mkdirs();
       new File("FOLDER_TO_DELETE/SUBFOLDER_TWO").mkdirs();
       new File("FOLDER_TO_DELETE/SUBFOLDER_TWO/TEST_FILE.txt").createNewFile();
    }

    @Test
    public void deleteFolderWithFiles() {
       File folderToDelete = new File("FOLDER_TO_DELETE");
       Assert.assertTrue(FileHelper.delete(folderToDelete));
       Assert.assertFalse(new File("FOLDER_TO_DELETE").exists());
    }

}

刚刚看到我的解决方案或多或少与埃里克森的相同，只是包装成一个静态方法。把它放到某个地方，它的重量比安装所有Apache Commons要轻得多，因为(如您所见)非常简单。

public class FileUtils {
    /**
     * By default File#delete fails for non-empty directories, it works like "rm". 
     * We need something a little more brutual - this does the equivalent of "rm -r"
     * @param path Root File Path
     * @return true iff the file and all sub files/directories have been removed
     * @throws FileNotFoundException
     */
    public static boolean deleteRecursive(File path) throws FileNotFoundException{
        if (!path.exists()) throw new FileNotFoundException(path.getAbsolutePath());
        boolean ret = true;
        if (path.isDirectory()){
            for (File f : path.listFiles()){
                ret = ret && deleteRecursive(f);
            }
        }
        return ret && path.delete();
    }
}

一个有堆栈且没有递归方法的解决方案:

File dir = new File("/path/to/dir");
File[] currList;
Stack<File> stack = new Stack<File>();
stack.push(dir);
while (! stack.isEmpty()) {
    if (stack.lastElement().isDirectory()) {
        currList = stack.lastElement().listFiles();
        if (currList.length > 0) {
            for (File curr: currList) {
                stack.push(curr);
            }
        } else {
            stack.pop().delete();
        }
    } else {
        stack.pop().delete();
    }
}

一行程序解决方案(Java8)，递归删除所有文件和目录，包括起始目录:

try (var dirStream = Files.walk(Paths.get("c:/dir_to_delete/"))) {
    dirStream
        .map(Path::toFile)
        .sorted(Comparator.reverseOrder())
        .forEach(File::delete);
}

我们使用一个颠倒顺序的比较器，否则File::delete将不能删除可能非空的目录。所以，如果你想保留目录，只删除文件，只需在sorted()中删除比较器或完全删除排序，并添加文件过滤器:

try (var dirStream = Files.walk(Paths.get("c:/dir_to_delete/"))) {
    dirStream
        .filter(Files::isRegularFile)
        .map(Path::toFile)
        .forEach(File::delete);
}