How to Delete a file

In this blog post, I will be demonstrating how you can delete a file in Java. Consider the following code snippet:

package learnjava.io;

import java.io.File;

public class DeleteFile {

public static void main(String[] args) {
String fileName = "D:/Test.txt";
File file = new File(fileName);
if (file.exists()) {
if (file.delete()) {
System.out.println("Deleted file successfully");
} else
System.out.println("Error in deleting file");
} else
System.out.println("File is missing, so could not be deleted");
}

}

There is a File.delete method available to delete a file. It returns true, if the delete was successful, otherwise returns a false. So if you run the above code snippet, the following output will be printed (Assuming there is a file called test.txt on D Drive):

Deleted file successfully