Remove files using a unix-like pattern

Question

Hello,

I would like to implement something equivalent to the unix command 'rm foo*' using Java. Obviously, I want it to be multi platform. I know that this can be done using the FilenameFilter class and File.delete() method, but I was wondering if I can perform this simple operation in a less verbose way.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Look in commons-io for org.apache.commons.io.filefilter.WildcardFileFilter.

And no, sorry, even though it is verbose, it doesn't get much less verbose than that. Groovy and Scala are good choices if you want to write concise scripts.