On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:45 PM, shi chuan <shichu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, I am trying to apply a task using Windows executable 'del' to > delete files, the reason I don't use <delete> is because it will delete even > if things are up to date. > However this runs into an error: cannot run program 'del'...error=2 > > <apply executable="del" dest="./abc/" osfamily="windows" > addsourcefile="false">
That's because 'del' is not a program, but a builtin 'cmd.exe' "Shell". That's similar to why http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/exec.html uses 'cmd -c foo.bat' Thus try <apply executable="cmd" ...> and add "-c del" as a command line arg. --DD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
