How to delete files with certain extension only

By mkyong | Updated: August 30, 2012

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Tags: extension file io java

In Java, you can implements the FilenameFilter, override the accept(File dir, String name) method, to perform the file filtering function.

In this example, we show you how to use FilenameFilter to list out all files that are end with “.txt” extension in folder “c:\\folder“, and then delete it.

package com.mkyong.io;

import java.io.*;

public class FileChecker {
	
   private static final String FILE_DIR = "c:\\folder";
   private static final String FILE_TEXT_EXT = ".txt";
	
   public static void main(String args[]) {
	new FileChecker().deleteFile(FILE_DIR,FILE_TEXT_EXT);
   }
	
   public void deleteFile(String folder, String ext){
		
     GenericExtFilter filter = new GenericExtFilter(ext);
     File dir = new File(folder);
	
     //list out all the file name with .txt extension
     String[] list = dir.list(filter);
	     
     if (list.length == 0) return;

     File fileDelete;
	    
     for (String file : list){
   	String temp = new StringBuffer(FILE_DIR)
                      .append(File.separator)
                      .append(file).toString();
    	fileDelete = new File(temp);
    	boolean isdeleted = fileDelete.delete();
    	System.out.println("file : " + temp + " is deleted : " + isdeleted);
     }
   }
  
   //inner class, generic extension filter 
   public class GenericExtFilter implements FilenameFilter {
	
       private String ext;
	
       public GenericExtFilter(String ext) {
         this.ext = ext;             
       }
	       
       public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
         return (name.endsWith(ext));
       }
    }
}