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Niall Pemberton updated IO-135: ------------------------------- Attachment: IO-135-FileUtils_deleteQuietly.patch Attaching an alternative patch that handles nulls and returns a boolean if the file/directory is deleted > Add convenience deleteQuietly to FileUtils > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: IO-135 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-135 > Project: Commons IO > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Utilities > Reporter: Kevin Conaway > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 1.4 > > Attachments: IO-135-FileUtils_deleteQuietly.patch, io-135.patch > > > It is occasionally useful to delete a file or directory and not care whether > that call succeeds or not. I'm not quite sure what others do when deleting > a file or directory fails but most often the case is to simply log the event > and move on. > The attached patch includes a new method deleteQuietly() and supporting test > cases -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.