Great, thanks. I was so busy thinking about deleting the folder that deleting
the file didn't occur to me. Duh! :)
Good to know that delete won't fail if the file doesn't exist.
Thanks.
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:33:56 +0200
> Subject: Re: Tar Task
> From: f...@one2team.com
> To: user@ant.apache.org
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 00:48, Rez P <pon...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> >
> >
> > How do I get the tar task to overwrite its previously created tar file?
> > Please see my current target below. I don't want to delete my dist folder
> > each time and I don't see any options in the help section to overwrite the
> > previous version of ShellScripts.tar.
> >
> >
> >
> > <target name="tar" >
> > <tar destfile="${dist}/ShellScripts.tar"
> > basedir="shell"
> > excludes="**/cvs/**"
> > />
> > </target>
> >
> >
>
> You can just <delete> the tarball before recreating it. Delete won't
> fail if it can't find the file to delete.
>
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