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From: RADEMAKERS Tanguy <tanguy.rademakers@swift.com>
Subject: Re: <delete> without following symlinks
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you could use a nested <fileset> with a followsymlinks="false" attribute.

see the manual page on FileSet.

/t

Dave Glowacki wrote:

> I've got a build file which runs a Unix program to set up a build 
> directory.  Among other tasks, this Unix program creates symbolic 
> links to several directories of utility programs.
>
> One of the first commands the build.xml file contains is <delete 
> dir="${builddir}">, which attempts to follow the symlinks and delete 
> everything in the symlinked directories, which is NOT what I want to 
> have happen.
>
> Is there an option for the <delete> task telling it not to follow 
> symlinks?
>
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