It was clear -- I just can't think of any way off-hand that's currently
available. The "culler" stuff that was submitted awhile ago looks like it
would do it, but it was never put into Ant, so you'd need to go back to
the archive to look at it:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=98751945513127&w=2
See section 7.2.2.2.1 for an example of the type of delete you're looking
to do.
Diane
--- Mark Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I seem to not have been clear enough previously. I need this deletion
> to be
> automatic when the target is run based on the fact that file2.txt no
> longer
> exists in c:/otherdir. That means, if somebody comes along and deletes
> a
> file from c:/otherdir, I want the same files to be deleted in
> c:/localdir
> when I rerun my make target.
>
> Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Mark
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
>
> Mark,
>
> Check out the delete task in the user manual. I believe the following
> is
> what you want:
> <delete file="c:/localdir/file2.txt"/>.
>
> Felice
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> All,
>
> I want to delete files from a local directory that no longer exist in a
> previously mirrored directory. e.g.
>
> c:/localdir
> file1.txt
> file2.txt
> file3.txt
>
> c:/otherdir
> file1.txt
> file3.txt
>
> In this case, I would want to delete file2.txt from c:/localdir. Does
> anyone know if this is possible in Ant.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
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