I think "**/tmpdir/" is just a short hand of "**/tmpdir/**". Your other patterns do not some match files inside the tmpdirs, thus the directories are not empty, thus they're not deleted. I'd guess you have subdirectories in your tempdir, which is why "**/tmpdir/*" didn't work (did not match any files in a subdirectory).
A little confusing yes, but totally ant-normal... --DD -----Original Message----- From: Mark Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:54 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Deleting filesets with directories Hi all, I've come across this frustrating little problem in Ant1.5b1 and was wondering if it could and/or should be fixed in the next release of Ant. I have a number of temporary directories the following directory structure: topdir/dirA/tmpdir topdir/dirB/tmpdir topdir/dirC/tmpdir I thought I could delete all the tmpdirs with this Ant task: <delete includeEmptyDirs="true"> <fileset dir="topdir" includes="**/tmpdir"/> </delete> but this does nothing. Then I tried this (notice the additional /* in the includes attribute): <delete includeEmptyDirs="true"> <fileset dir="topdir" includes="**/tmpdir/*"/> </delete> and finally this (removed the * from the above task): <delete includeEmptyDirs="true"> <fileset dir="topdir" includes="**/tmpdir/"/> </delete> This last one did what I wanted, which was to delete the tmpdirs and all their contents from each of dirA, dirB and dirC. Is it just me, or should the first of these three examples done the same thing? Thanks, Mark. --- Mark Reid Proxima Technology, Inc. http://www.proxima-tech.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
