I have a target in my build.xml that deletes files older than 60 days.
Here is how I did it purely in Ant...
<tstamp>
<format property="60_days_ago" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm aa"
offset="-60" unit="day"/>
</tstamp>
<path id="aged.archives">
<fileset dir="${archive.dir}" includes="**/*">
<date datetime="${60_days_ago}" when="before"/>
</fileset>
</path>
<target name="rmagedfiles">
<echo>Deleting files older than 60 days from the archive:</echo>
<for param="file">
<path refid="aged.archives"/>
<sequential>
<delete file="@{file}"/>
</sequential>
</for>
</target>
You could easily change this to move files older than 10 days. Note that
this makes use of the <for> task from the ant-contrib project
(http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/index.html)
I hope this helps.
-Rob Anderson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elaine Fortin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:21 AM
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Ant exec find -exec problem
>
> I am trying to create an Ant script to move files that are 10
> days old to a backup directory.
> I cannot find how to do this purely in Ant, but I know that
> the Unix 'find'
> works.
>
> Ant returns the error: "[exec] /bin/find: incomplete statement"
>
> when I issue the following:
> <exec executable="find">
> <arg line="find ./feeds -name
> myFilename* -mtime +10 -exec mv '{}' ./feeds_backup \; "/>
> </exec>
>
> This command works fine when issued from a Unix shell:
> find ./feeds -name myFilename* -mtime +10 -exec mv '{}'
> ./feeds_backup \;
>
> How can I make this work?
>
> Thanks,
> Elaine
>
>
>
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