This is really simple, but it's something I couldn't find in the
system...maybe I didn't look closely enough, but there it is...it uses
the <include> and <exclude> tags to selectively delete files from a
directory structure.
Enjoy
John Casey
/*
* MultiDelete.java
*
* Created on September 28, 2000, 8:31 PM
*/
package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs;
import org.apache.tools.ant.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
/** MultiDelete: This task type will scour the directory tree below the
basedir, and delete files
* matching one of the patterns specified by include sub-tags, and NOT matching
the ones designated by
* the exclude sub-tags.
*
* @author John Casey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* @version 0.1
*/
public class MultiDelete extends MatchingTask {
/** Executes the task. */
public void execute() throws BuildException{
String[] files =
getDirectoryScanner(project.resolveFile(".")).getIncludedFiles();
for(int i=0; i<files.length; i++){
File f = new File(files[i]);
if(!f.exists()){
throw new BuildException("ANT found a non-existent file " +
"and tried to delete it...\n" +
"THIS IS A PROBLEM!");
}
System.out.println("[multidelete] Deleting file: " + files[i]);
if(!f.delete()){
System.out.println("\tCOULD NOT DELETE " + files[i]);
project.log("Could not delete file: " +
files[i]);
}
}
}
}
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