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DELETE Ant task? Anything faster? (Edit Nevermind)

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  • 03-08-2004 11:33am
    #1
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    you used to be able to delete a whole directory fast in ANT, now it appears a lot is deprecated and I have to use fileset to list what I want to delete.

    So how do I delete faster in ANT without using deprecations, or spawning to the OS?
    <delete includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="yes">
    <fileset dir="${dir.to.delete}" casesensitive="no">
        <include name="**/**"/>
    </fileset>
</delete>

    This works, but is horribly slow (as there are around 200,000 files in the subdirectories).

    Edit: I was using the wrong combinations of arguments which was triggering the deprecation message. This below works fine.
    <delete dir="${dir.to.delete}" failonerror="yes"/>


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    #2
    bonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    'cording to the manual, Hobbes, the delete command takes either a file attribute, a dir attribute, or a fileset.

    It says you must have one or the other, unless a fileset is used.

    So I'd say a spot of R'ing TFM might should you on this one.

    jc

    Edit: Apparently you've just discovered this yourself.


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    #3
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    bonkey wrote:
    So I'd say a spot of R'ing TFM might should you on this one.

    Actually I've read the manual.

    If you use an attribute which is used by the fileset eg. includeemptydirs="true", then it thinks your trying to delete files not a directory and that is what triggered the Deprecation warnings.


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