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From: "Glen Marchesani" <glenlist@model3.net>
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Subject: deleting a file if it does or does not exist
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:08:04 +0200
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Hello I have a newbie question,

I want to delete a file (part of my clean task) but the file isn't =
guaranteed to be there.  I currently use

  <delete file=3D"generated.jar"/>   =20

This only works if the file does exist if it doesn't I get an error

"D:\foo\build.xml:295: Unable to delete file D:\foo\generated.jar"

As a work around I did this.
 =20
<delete>
       <fileset dir=3D"." includes=3D"**/generated.jar.*"/>
</delete>


I am looking to learn of better ways to do the file deletion if it =
exists and not fail if it doesn't.

regards,
Glen


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