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Ram N

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Java Tutorial : Java IO (Java File - How to Delete files with certain extension only - V1) Posted: Nov 14, 2016 10:24 AM
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 ExtensionFilter.java
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FilenameFilter;

/*
* boolean accept(File dir, String name)
*
* Parameters:
* ----------
*
* dir - the directory in which the file was found.
* name - the name of the file.
*/

public class ExtensionFilter implements FilenameFilter
{

private String fileExtension;

public ExtensionFilter(String fileExtension)
{
this.fileExtension = fileExtension;
}

/*
* Tests if a specified file should be included in a
* file list.
*
* Returns: true if and only if the name should be
* included in the file list; false otherwise.
*/

@Override
public boolean accept(File dir, String name)
{
return (name.endsWith(fileExtension));
}

}
FileDemo.java
import java.io.File;

/*
* public String[] list(FilenameFilter filter)
*
* Parameters:
* ----------
*
* filter - A filename filter
*
* How to use FilenameFilter to list out all files that
* are end with “.txt” extension in folder “D:/work“,
* and then delete it.
*/


public class FileDemo
{

public static void main(String[] args)
{
FileDemo fileDemo = new FileDemo();
fileDemo.deleteFiles("D:/work", ".txt");
}

public void deleteFiles(String dirName, String fileExtension)
{
File fileDir = new File(dirName);

ExtensionFilter extFilter = new ExtensionFilter(fileExtension);

/*
* Returns an array of strings naming the files and
* directories in the directory denoted by this
* abstract pathname that satisfy the specified
* filter.
*/

String[] listOfFileNames = fileDir.list(extFilter);

if (listOfFileNames.length == 0)
{
System.out.println("no files end with : " + fileExtension);
return;
}

for (String fileName : listOfFileNames)
{
String filePath = new StringBuilder(dirName)
.append(File.separator).append(fileName).toString();
File file = new File(filePath);
boolean isDeleted = file.delete();
System.out.println(file.getAbsolutePath() + " isDeleted = "
+ isDeleted);
}

}

}
Output 
D:\work\Hello.txt isDeleted = true
D:\work\Java.txt isDeleted = true
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