In make: $(RM) -f $(DIR_CLASSES)/*
end of story! Works every time! As for ant, what the heck is the "delete dir" construct used/useful for if it can't do this??? Marvin Avery -----Original Message----- From: peter reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:43 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Ant newbie - simple question On Wednesday 11 June 2003 15:30, Avery Marvin R wrote: > First my complaint: this is trivial using make! what is the command in make and why cannot one use it in ant? > > Now the question: Why does the following seemingly > simple and straight-forward ant xml > script _not_ remove the subdirs under the > classes dir (Windows NT OS)? Thanks in advance. > > <target name="clean"> > <delete dir="${dir_classes}/*"/> > </target> > > NOTE: ** after the / doesn't work either! > > Marvin Avery --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]