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From: "Gary Lawson" <gary@sferics.com>
To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Deleting directories
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:49:38 -0000
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Firstly, apologies for what (I hope) is a simple question.

I am simply trying to delete the contents (files and sub-directories) of a
number of directories.
ant appears to be ignoring the contents of my target.

The code is as follows:

<target name="clearup">
	<delete verbose="true">
		<!-- delete everything from /variable1/dir1 -->
		<fileset dir="${variable1}/dir1/">
			<include name="**" />
		</fileset>
		<!-- delete everything from /variable2 -->
		<fileset dir="${variable2}/">
			<include name="**" />
		</fileset>
		<!-- delete directory /variable1/dir2/variable3 -->
		<fileset dir="${variable1}/dir2/">
			<include name="${variable3}" />
		</fileset>
	</delete>
</target>

The variables are all defined and work in other targets.

Other things I've tried (without success):
defaultexcludes="no" - deprecated
comma separated list instead of filesets
One "delete" for every dir
	<delete dir="${variable1}/dir1/">
	<delete dir="${variable2}/">
	<delete dir="${variable1}/dir2/${variable3}"

I don't believe it's file permissions as I'm running ant as root and root
owns the directories and files in question.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm going daft!

TIA

Gary