Empty Directory import java.io.*; //DANGEROUS Program to empty a directory public class Empty { public static void main(String[] argv) { if (argv.length != 1) { // no progname in argv[0] System.err.println("usage: Empty dirname"); System.exit(1); } File dir = new File(argv[0]); if (!dir.exists()) { System.out.println(argv[0] + " does not exist"); return; } String[] info = dir.list(); for (int i=0; i File n = new File(argv[0] + dir.separator + info[i]); if (!n.isFile()) // skip ., .., other directories too continue; System.out.println("removing " + n.getPath()); if (!n.delete()) System.err.println("Couldn't remove " + n.getPath()); } } }