On 26/06/2009, jscripter <
pc88mxer@...> wrote:
>
> The main problem with this is that I don't want to keep track of which
> symlinks to delete.
> The tree I am deleting may have lots of symlinks.
>
> I realize that Java doesn't know about symlinks and that Ant uses a
> heuristic to determine if a file object is a symlink, but is there a way to
> create a fileset of everything that looks like a symlink?
Just a thought - is there a way to build a fileset from the output of
an <exec> task? If so, how about using that to call "find . -type l
-print" in the relevant directory?
Andy
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> Scot P. Floess-2 wrote:
> >
> >
> > Have you looked at the symlink task?
> >
> >
http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/symlink.html> >
> > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, jscripter wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I am using this target definition to remove all the files under ${TOP}
> >> which
> >> contains some symlinks to other directories:
> >>
> >> <target name="clean">
> >> <delete includeEmptyDirs="true" failonerror="false">
> >> <fileset dir="${TOP}" followsymlinks="false"/>
> >> </delete>
> >> </target>
> >>
> >> However, I've noticed that delete is not deleting the symlinks.
> >>
> >> I'd like to get the same results as /bin/rm -rf under Unix, i.e. the
> >> symlinks are deleted but not followed. Is there a way to do that with the
> >> delete task?
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