Java, IO - fastest way to remove file

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Zorkus picture Zorkus · Jul 28, 2010 · Viewed 17k times · Source

My problem is that I have an app which is writing a lot of relatively (100-500kb) small CSV files (tens and hundreds of thousands ). Content of those files then get loaded in database via sql loader call (its oracle db) and this is what I have to live with.

So, I need to remove those small files time to time to prevent them from eating up all space. I would like to attach that to the activity which writes those files and loads them into db as a last finalize step.

My Question is -- how in java can one remove a bunch of small files with less overhead on performance?

Thanks in advance! Michael

Answer

Bozho picture Bozho · Jul 28, 2010

Well, file.delete() should suffice (it is internally implemented as a native method)

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