Delete a File in Java

This short tutorial shows how to delete a file in Java. First, you will need to create a File object for the file. Once you have created a File object, you can call the delete method. This method will return true if the file was deleted.

       File file = new File("c:/temp/test.txt");
       boolean success = file.delete();

       if (success)
       {
           //File was deleted
           System.out.println("File was deleted.");
       }
       else
       {
           //File was not deleted
           System.out.println("File was not deleted.");
       }

If it fails in deleting the file (maybe because of a file lock), you can request the JVM to delete the file when it exits using the deleteOnExit() method on the File object.