Well, if you are using Ant 1.3, you could try adding includeEmptyDirs="true"
as an attribute of <delete> That's supposed to delete empty dirs that match
the pattern. But I think it's buggy such that if _notes has subdirectories,
only the leaf directories will be deleted.
K.C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryon Day [mailto:bryon.day@aws-online.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:52 PM
> To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: deleting a directory recursively
>
>
> dear all,
>
> can anyone help me?
>
> I'm trying to use Ant to recursively remove a directory
> within my project
> directory structure. the directory is "_notes" and there are
> MANY instances
> throughout the project.
>
> here is a copy of the xml I'm using:
>
> <target name="clean">
> <delete>
> <fileset dir="wwwroot" includes="**/_notes/**" />
> </delete>
> </target>
>
>
>
> when run, this just empties the directories but does not remove the
> directory itself.
>
>
> all help appreciated.
>
>
> cheers,
> Bryon.
>
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