Have you tried adding defaultexcludes="no"?
Diane
--- "David Koontz (MapQuest)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> in my build.xml
>
> <target name="clean">
> <delete dir="${deploy.home}"/>
> <delete>
> <fileset dir="." includes="**/*.*~"/>
> </delete>
> </target>
>
> the tilde ('~') appears to have some special meaning for ant - it gets
> ignored
>
> I have VIM backup files all throughout the src dirs - I'd like them to
> be
> deleted on an
> Ant clean command. The backup files have a format of *.*~ (ie
> somefile.jsp~).
>
> The above delete command doesn't work.
>
> I also tried "**/*.*\~" ie escaping the ~
>
> Help please,
>
> David Koontz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Software Engineer - Enterprise Services
> MapQuest www.mapquest.com
> Denver, CO 303 244 0305
>
>
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