I tried, but I don't want to have to specify all the names of the subdirs, and if I
write exclude name="${basedir}/bin" then the delete doesn't do anything.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandre Touret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:47 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: How to delete directory tree but not main directory.
did you tryed with the tag <patternset> ??
Alexandre Touret
Eloise Friedman wrote:
>Hello to you all.
>For one of my clean tasks I want to delete a directory tree, but leave the base
>directory.
>For example, my file system looks like this:
>
>homeDir/oneDir/twoDir/src
> lib
> bin/Html/*.html
> Js/*.js
> Xml/*.xml
> Xsl/*.xsl
> *.*
>
>I want to delete all the files and directories under bin, but not the bin directory
>itself.
>
>
>All my experiments, including using include/exclude in <fileset>, deleteEmptyDir etc
>have either removed the bin directory itself, or left empty dirs under bin, which I
>don't want.I don't want to specify all the directory names under bin, because then if
>we add a directory I need to modify the build file.
>
>Sadly enough, I saw on the web that the "bug" which didn't remove the base directory
>for the delete process has been fixed for release 1.4, but that's what I need!!
>
>Thank you all for your time.
>
>
>
>
>Eloise
>
>09-7699457.
>
>
>
>
>
>Eloise
>
>09-7699457.
>
>
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