Re: Making the delete task behave like /bin/rm -rf vis-a-vis symlinks to directories

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> I am using this target definition to remove all the files under ${TOP} which
> contains some symlinks to other directories:
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>    <target name="clean">
>        <delete includeEmptyDirs="true" failonerror="false">
>            <fileset dir="${TOP}" followsymlinks="false"/>
>        </delete>
>    </target>
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> 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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