Hello Cyril, have you looked at using a combination of the <depth> and <type> selectors?
/t >-----Original Message----- >From: Cyril Sagan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:28 AM >To: user@ant.apache.org >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: <delete dir="X/Y"> woes! > > >I'm loosing my mind trying to get Ant to delete a directory! > >I thought this was easy, until I was sent a path property that >included multiple directory components. > >The obvious was working: > <delete dir="${base}" verbose="true" includeEmptyDirs="true" /> > >...until I was given a path in the form "dirX/dirY". > >The result was to remove "dirY" and all its contents, but leave an >empty "dirX". Yes, I could use <dirname>: > <dirname file="${base}" property="top"/> > <delete dir="${top}" verbose="true" includeEmptyDirs="true" /> > >...but this is no good for arbitrary paths, failing with something as >simple as "dirX/dirY/dirZ". > >I solved this with a trivial shell exec to return the "highest level" >directory component, but this didn't seem to be the "Ant way". If >anyone has any better ideas, I'd be very interested in hearing them. > >Thanks!! I'm stumped! > >--Cyril > >ps. I'm using Ant 1.6.2. The base directories are created as a >result of an <ftp> get operation embedded in my build.xml. The >problem would go away if <ftp> allowed the local path to be different >from the remote. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
