>From my build.xml:
<target name="clean" unless="fast">
<!-- Delete the ${build} directory trees -->
<delete dir="${build}" />
</target>
note the '/>' at the end of <delete dir.. tag.
It seems that the are missing from your previous atempts...
You might also try to remove the last '/' at the end of '<fileset
dir="${variable1}/dir1/">'
I have experienced that '/' at the end of some dir causes truble...
-- Arvid
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Lawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 15:50
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Deleting directories
Firstly, apologies for what (I hope) is a simple question.
I am simply trying to delete the contents (files and sub-directories) of a
number of directories.
ant appears to be ignoring the contents of my target.
The code is as follows:
<target name="clearup">
<delete verbose="true">
<!-- delete everything from /variable1/dir1 -->
<fileset dir="${variable1}/dir1/">
<include name="**" />
</fileset>
<!-- delete everything from /variable2 -->
<fileset dir="${variable2}/">
<include name="**" />
</fileset>
<!-- delete directory /variable1/dir2/variable3 -->
<fileset dir="${variable1}/dir2/">
<include name="${variable3}" />
</fileset>
</delete>
</target>
The variables are all defined and work in other targets.
Other things I've tried (without success):
defaultexcludes="no" - deprecated
comma separated list instead of filesets
One "delete" for every dir
<delete dir="${variable1}/dir1/">
<delete dir="${variable2}/">
<delete dir="${variable1}/dir2/${variable3}"
I don't believe it's file permissions as I'm running ant as root and root
owns the directories and files in question.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm going daft!
TIA
Gary
