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title: "Repeating Your Existence"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/repeating-your-existence-upikvdlqs
source_url: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/repeating-your-existence
type: article
source: "The Daily WTF"
published: 2026-03-04T12:50:34.040Z
updated: 2026-03-04T12:50:54.943Z
tags: ["java"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Repeating Your Existence

**[The Daily WTF](https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf)** · 1 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A short humorous code snippet from The Daily WTF shows a Java developer wrapping `Files.deleteIfExists(filePath)` inside an `if (Files.exists(filePath))` check — a redundant pattern since `deleteIfExists` already handles the non-existence case internally. The author notes this isn't a valid race condition workaround either, as the method is not atomic with respect to other file system operations.

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