In this blog post, I will be demonstrating how you can delete a file in Java. Consider the following code snippet:

package learnjava.io;

import java.io.File;

public class DeleteFile {

    public static void main(String[] args) { 
        String fileName = "D:/Test.txt"; 
        File file = new File(fileName); 
        if (file.exists()) { 
            if (file.delete()) { 
                System.out.println("Deleted file successfully"); 
            } else 
                System.out.println("Error in deleting file"); 
            } 
        else 
            System.out.println("File is missing, so could not be deleted"); 
    }
}

There is a File.delete method available to delete a file. It returns true, if the delete was successful, otherwise returns a false. So if you run the above code snippet, the following output will be printed (Assuming there is a file called test.txt on D Drive):

Deleted file successfully