Delete Files with same Prefix String using Java

Question

I have around 500 text files inside a directory with a same prefix in their filename say dailyReport_.

The latter part of the file is the date of the fi

Answer 1

No, you can't. Java is rather low-level language -- comparing with shell-script -- so things like this must be done more explicetly. You should search for files with required mask with folder.listFiles(FilenameFilter), and iterate through returned array deleting each entry. Like this:

final File folder = ...
final File[] files = folder.listFiles( new FilenameFilter() {
    @Override
    public boolean accept( final File dir,
                           final String name ) {
        return name.matches( "dailyReport_08.*\\.txt" );
    }
} );
for ( final File file : files ) {
    if ( !file.delete() ) {
        System.err.println( "Can't remove " + file.getAbsolutePath() );
    }
}