I've got a feeling that because of a bug in the <fileset> task, I think this
wont
work easily at the moment unless its been fixed.
You should be able to use the <foreach> task (see ant-contrib on
sourceforge), the
URL of which is frequently posted on this mailing list if you search for
"ant-contrib"
and do something like the following:
<foreach param="dirname" target="deleteme">
<fileset dir="base">
<include name="**/CVS"/>
</fileset>
</foreach>
<target name="deleteme">
<delete dir="${dirname}"/>
</target>
Alternatively as a hack you can copy the delete-root somewhere else, as the
defaultexcludes will not copy any CVS directories. And then copy this back
but it takes longer.
You're supposed to be able to do something like:
<delete includeEmptyDirs="true">
<fileset dir="base">
<include name="**/CVS"/>
</fileset>
</delete>
However this will delete all empty directories, not just the (newly-deleted)
CVS ones, so this may or may not be applicable in your situation
Personally speaking I'd use the first method.
Hope this helps
Cheers
-Geoff
-----Original Message-----
From: Stacy Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 07 September 2002 06:34 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: How to delete multiple folders by pattern?
I'm trying to delete all instances of a folder called CVS within a directory
structure but for the life of me I can't get it right...
Any help appreciated!
Stace
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