RE: Ant fileset - does tilde have special meaning

[David Koontz \(MapQuest\)]

Never mind - I found it.

 

RTFM - use 'defaultexcludes="no"'   - the pattern  **/*~ is one pattern that is excluded from matching

 

http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/dirtasks.html

 

  <target name="clean">
    <delete dir="${deploy.home}"/>
    <delete>
       <fileset dir="." includes="**/*.*~" defaultexcludes="no"/>
    </delete>
  </target>

 

David

-----Original Message-----
From: David Koontz (MapQuest) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ant fileset - does tilde have special meaning

in my build.xml 

 

 <target name="clean">
    <delete dir="${deploy.home}"/>
    <delete>
       <fileset dir="." includes="**/*.*~"/>
    </delete>
  </target>

 

the tilde ('~') appears to have some special meaning for ant - it gets ignored

 

I have VIM backup files all throughout the src dirs - I'd like them to be deleted on an

Ant clean command.  The backup files have a format of *.*~ (ie somefile.jsp~).

 

The above delete command doesn't work. 

 

I also tried  "**/*.*\~"   ie escaping the ~

 

Help please,

 

David Koontz                [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Software Engineer - Enterprise Services

MapQuest                     www.mapquest.com

Denver, CO                  303 244 0305