On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 02:37, Matthew Inger wrote:
> what would be nice on the filepatterns is to be able check a certain
> condition before executing the delete on the file. what you could
> essentially
> do is to have it exec this command, and check the return code. If the
> return code
> is non-z
Peter Donald wrote:
Hi,
The problem is that on quite a few different OSes the canonical and absolute
paths may differ. In particular case-insensitive file systems reak havoc and
are available on all major OSes. I am not sure there is a maintainable way of
doing this at the java level.
However s
Hi,
The problem is that on quite a few different OSes the canonical and absolute
paths may differ. In particular case-insensitive file systems reak havoc and
are available on all major OSes. I am not sure there is a maintainable way of
doing this at the java level.
However several people have
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Matthew Inger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The way to tell a symbolic link is to compare the absolute path name
> of the file, which the canonical path name.
Hmm, this won't work - lets say /tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp -
following your logic all files in /tmp will be conside
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a known feature. To delete symbolic links, one must shell out to
the OS to remove it. I don't know about 1.4 and whether it deletes the
link instead of the target.
/bill
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