in the worst case, you can delete tour dir with all subdirs and after
create a directory with the same name
sorry ....
Alexandre Touret
Eloise Friedman wrote:
>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.
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>did you tryed with the tag <patternset> ??
>
>Alexandre Touret
>Eloise Friedman wrote:
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>>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.
>>
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>>Eloise
>>
>>09-7699457.
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>>Eloise
>>
>>09-7699457.
>>
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