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soninob
soninob

Reputation: 456

Deleting driectory deletes only its content using Ant

I'm trying to delete directories and its content using ant, but onlt the content gets deleted. The directory is still existing. What am I miising?

<delete failonerror="false">
   <dirset dir="C:\profile\${profileName}\installedApps\Cell${profileName}">
    <include name="${projectName}**/*"/>
   </dirset>
</delete>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 40

Answers (1)

CAustin
CAustin

Reputation: 4614

Simply use the delete task with the dir attribute set to the parent directory:

<delete dir="C:\profile\${profileName}\installedApps\Cell${profileName}" />

Edit: In response to your comment, here's how to delete all of the directories (and their files) with a certain name pattern that exist within a parent directory.

<property name="profile.dir" location="C:\profile\${profileName}\installedApps\Cell${profileName}" />

<delete>
    <fileset dir="${profile.dir}" includes="${projectName}*/**/*" />
    <dirset dir="${profile.dir}" includes="${projectName}*/**" />
</delete>

Setting the profile.dir property prior to running the delete task is of course optional, but recommended.

Upvotes: 1

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