The main problem with this is that I don't want to keep track of which symlinks to delete. The tree I am deleting may have lots of symlinks.
I realize that Java doesn't know about symlinks and that Ant uses a heuristic to determine if a file object is a symlink, but is there a way to create a fileset of everything that looks like a symlink? Scot P. Floess-2 wrote: > > > Have you looked at the symlink task? > > http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/symlink.html > > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, jscripter wrote: > >> >> I am using this target definition to remove all the files under ${TOP} >> which >> contains some symlinks to other directories: >> >> <target name="clean"> >> <delete includeEmptyDirs="true" failonerror="false"> >> <fileset dir="${TOP}" followsymlinks="false"/> >> </delete> >> </target> >> >> However, I've noticed that delete is not deleting the symlinks. >> >> I'd like to get the same results as /bin/rm -rf under Unix, i.e. the >> symlinks are deleted but not followed. Is there a way to do that with the >> delete task? >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Making-the-delete-task-behave-like--bin-rm--rf-vis-a-vis-symlinks-to-directories-tp24154698p24154698.html >> Sent from the Ant - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org >> >> > > Scot P. Floess > 27 Lake Royale > Louisburg, NC 27549 > > 252-478-8087 (Home) > 919-890-8117 (Work) > > Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate > Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim > > Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Making-the-delete-task-behave-like--bin-rm--rf-vis-a-vis-symlinks-to-directories-tp24154698p24221645.html Sent from the Ant - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
