To work properly for directories, you may want to extend your task to take a <dirset> in addition to a <fileset>. Thanks, --DD
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Dallaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:45 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Delete all but the most recent N files Dave Thanks for the feedback. It does work on directories, in that if you have... <purge keep="5"> <fileset dir="/foo" /> </purge> ...then it will (should!) search and consider all sub folders of "foo". E.g., /foo/baz/logs/file.txt would be a file considered for purging. However, what it doesn't do is delete directories. For the way I work, it'd be a pain for "log" fodlers to start being removed. Then again, if directory deletion is something you need, I think it'd be simple to add it as a flag. Cheers Richard David Colton (ext. 799) wrote: > Richard. > > Congrats on a developing a very useful task. I'll be hitting this problem > soon when I set up a continuous build. > > Have you tried using this \ would this work on directories. We also build > nightly and every now and then a build fails when the disk in full. > > If it doesn't work on directories it would be nice if it did. I don't have > time at the moment myself to look into this but will get to it eventually. > If I do need to make changes to get it working with directories I'll send > you any updates. > > Dave. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Dallaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 15 October 2002 11:03 > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: Delete all but the most recent N files > > > Just wanted to thank every one who chipped in with ideas for solving > this problem. It was a huge help in digging around Ant trying to find a > good way to "purge" old files. > > In the end, I've build a task to do the job. It's available here: > > http://www.dallaway.com/ant/ > > Comments, bug reports, suggestions... always welcome. > > If we find related uses for the components of this task, then maybe that > would be a good time to think about refactoring it into something more > generic. > > Thanks again > Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
