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From: "Glen Marchesani" <glenlist@model3.net>
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Subject: Re: deleting a file if it does or does not exist
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:51:44 +0200
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Hmmm...  you are right.  After looking, the problem was trying to delete a
jar file that was in the ant class path thus it could not be deleted (though
I remember that this is jvm dependent).  Cleaning up my classpath and delete
behaves as expected.

thanks,
Glen


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Bodewig" <bodewig@apache.org>
To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: deleting a file if it does or does not exist


> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Glen Marchesani <glenlist@model3.net> wrote:
>
> >   <delete file="generated.jar"/>
> >
> > This only works if the file does exist if it doesn't I get an error
>
> Hmm, works for me
>
> [bodewig@bodewig tmp]$ cat b.xml
> <project default="b">
>   <target name="b">
>     <delete file="not-there" />
>   </target>
> </project>
>
> [bodewig@bodewig tmp]$ ant -f b.xml
> Buildfile: b.xml
>
> b:
>
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
> Total time: 1 second
>
> and with -verbose
>
> b:
>    [delete] Could not find file /tmp/not-there to delete.
>
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
>
> > "D:\foo\build.xml:295: Unable to delete file D:\foo\generated.jar"
>
> This is the message you will get if the file exists but cannot be
> deleted.
>
> Stefan
>
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