[jira] [Commented] (IO-857) PathUtils.cleanDirectory method does not erase subdirectories

["Gary D. Gregory (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gary D. Gregory commented on IO-857:
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Hello [~ydmitrya]

I think the semantics of "clean" is "delete files but not directories" such that cleaning a directory leaves you with a directory tree without any files.

PathUtils does this correctly but FileUtils does not.

So I think the bug is that FileUtils "clean" does too much deleting. I'm not sure if this is a regression or if FileUtils has always behaved this way.



> PathUtils.cleanDirectory method does not erase subdirectories
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: IO-857
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-857
>             Project: Commons IO
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Utilities
>    Affects Versions: 2.16.1
>            Reporter: Dmitry
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The PathUtils.cleanDirectory method does not erase subdirectories. Only the files in them. The FileUtils.cleanDirectory method erases everything except the directory itself, and this is the expected behavior.



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