Github user kinow commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/459#discussion_r209416731
--- Diff: jena-base/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/atlas/io/IO.java ---
@@ -364,4 +369,31 @@ public static String uniqueFilename(String directory,
String base, String ext) {
return null ;
}
}
+
+ /** Delete everything from a {@code Path} start point, including the
path itself.
+ * This function works on files or directories.
+ * This function does not follow symbolic links.
+ */
+ public static void deleteAll(Path start) {
--- End diff --
`Files.delete()` is a no-no because it would remove the symlink? I had a
look at `FileUtils` from Commons IO (project dependency) but not sure if
there's a method that does the same as this method (and Java7's Files/Paths is
a nice API).
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