Missing delete path facility

[Ulf Zibis]

Hi all,

in the new nio API there is Path#delete(). It only allows to delete a 
single file or directory if empty.
If developer wants to delete a complete subtree of a path, he has to 
programmatically iterate over all its elements.

Please add functionality to save developers from hand-coding those 
iterations.

On http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/legacy.html in 
"Mapping java.io.File Functionality to java.nio.file"-table I find:
|File.delete|  --> |Path.delete| or |Path.delete(boolean)

|But there is no expression for delete(boolean) in current 
implementation of Path.

-Ulf

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