One more wrinkle to this problem that might be of interest. In order for the
<attrib> task to enable removal of a directory, it is necessary to append '/**'
to any directory designation so as to include all the files in directory.
Otherwise, the <delete> task will ignore the directory unless it's entire
contents is also marked R/W.
This necessitates declaring directories to be removed in a <fileset> or
<patternset> directive with a trailing '/**'. Not necessary if the directory
is ALREADY marked R/W - the delete command will work correctly. BUT, if you
must first invoke the <attrib>, then it is necessary to append '/**' to insure
all enclosed files are also marked.
The resulting code is below: First <patternset> entry delete a 'specified'
directory. Second <patternset> entry deletes all directories of a given name.
Third <patternset> entry deletes all files matching a wild card specification
anywhere in the directory tree.
Hope this is useful info.
Ken Parrish
Gomez, Inc.
<patternset id="deploySiteCleanupSet" >
<include name="Dashboard/**" />
<include name="**/_vti_cnf/**" />
<include name="**/XX*" />
<include name="Dashboard2" />
</patternset>
<target name="PurgeDeployDirectory" >
<echo message="PurgeDeployDirectory_dir =
${PurgeDeployDirectory_dir}" />
<attrib verbose="true" readonly="false" >
<fileset basedir="${PurgeDeployDirectory_dir}"
defaultexcludes="false" >
<patternset refid="deploySiteCleanupSet" />
</fileset>
</attrib>
<delete verbose="true" includeemptydirs="true" >
<fileset basedir="${PurgeDeployDirectory_dir}"
defaultexcludes="false" >
<patternset refid="deploySiteCleanupSet" />
</fileset>
</delete>
</target>
-----Original Message-----
From: Parrish, Ken [mailto:kparr...@gomez.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:45 PM
To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [NAnt-users] SOLVED: RE: Delete not removing directories ...
Scoured the documentation and discovered that <delete> will not act on ReadOnly
files and directories. Marked the entire directory tree as Read/Write. Now
everything is working as expected.
Next up, an investigation into the <attrib> task.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: Brass Tilde [mailto:brassti...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:00 PM
To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [NAnt-users] Delete not removing directories ...
> <delete verbose="true" includeemptydirs="true" >
> <fileset basedir="${PurgeDeployDirectory_dir}"
> defaultexcludes="false" >
> <include name="**/_vti_cnf" />
> <include name="**/XX*" />
> <include name="Dashboard" />
> </fileset>
> </delete>
>
> </target>
What happens if you use "**/_vti_cnf/" or "**/_vti_cnf/**" and
"Dashboard/" or "Dashboard/**" instead?
/bs
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