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From: Chris Grindstaff <chrisg@appliedreasoning.com>
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Subject: Re: deleting *~ with 'build clean'
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Mike,
     By default the Ant excludes "**/*~" files.  You need to indicate
in your task that you do not want the default behavior.  You do that
by adding the "defaultexcludes" attribute.

So you would specify
<delete dir="." includes="**/*~" defaultexcludes="no" />

This is in the Ant User Manual BTW.

HTH,
Chris

Monday, August 14, 2000, 5:39:06 PM, Michael Klein wrote:
MK> As part of 'build clean', I'm trying to delete emacs '~' files in the source directory with the following task directive:

MK> <delete dir="." includes="**/*~"/>

MK> but it seems like <delete> isn't being invoked at all.  The best I can get it is an error message if I give a bad directory, but I can't seem to
MK> actually get it to delete anything using the 'dir=' parameter.  Am I doing something wrong?

MK> I've also tried various permutations:

MK> <delete dir="javasrc" includes="*.java~"/>
MK> <delete dir="javasrc/" includes="*.java~"/
MK> <delete dir="javasrc/com/mycompany/mypackage" includes="*.java~"/>

MK> And none of these actually delete anything.  Setting 'verbose="true"' doesn't give any extra info.

MK> I'm working on WindowsNT.

MK> -mike

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