IF this a consistent directory tree? If so, just exclude the directories
from the delete. If not I think you should be able to use a foreach to
loop over a fileset and delete each individual files. But, I don't know
how good the performance on this will be.
BOb
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From: Parrish, Ken [mailto:kparr...@gomez.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:34 AM
To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [NAnt-users] Delete files but preserve directory tree
I am trying to write a Nant task which, given the pathname of a
directory, will recursively remove all the files at all levels in the
directory tree, but will NOT delete any of the directories themselves.
This is needed so that we can 'purge' a deployment web site, but
preserve the directory tree and configuration files, thus preserving
various file system and web server permissions and attributes assigned
to various nodes in the directory tree.
I was hoping to do this with a single <delete> task, but have been
unsuccessful in my attempts to create a <fileset> element which behaves
properly. I tried using <include name="**" /> but that causes all the
subdirectory nodes to be deleted as well. For example:
<delete>
<fileset basedir="${PurgeDeploymentDirectory_dir}">
<include name="**" />
</fileset>
</delete>
Does anyone have any ideas how to approach this problem? Should I write
this as a task that recursive walks the directory tree?
Thanks,
Ken Parrish
Gomez, Inc.
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