Hi Bruce,
You should probably go back and check out this whole thread. I had already
tried what you suggest below. All that will do is select all files to
delete. See Diane's responses to see why that can't work. Also see the
solution I just posted. It really is the only way to do this, currently.
Jake
At 05:52 PM 9/23/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>At 05:05 AM 9/21/2002 -0500, Jacob Kjome wrote:
>
>>Now what I'd like to do is set up a way to delete the files generated by
>>this copy. So, I need to find all files that have a corresponding
>>"sample.*" file and delete those.
>>
>>If I just use the following, it deletes the sample.* file, not the * file
>>which is the opposite of what I want...
>>
>> <delete>
>> <fileset
>> dir="${src.dir}" >
>> <present present="both" targetdir="${src.dir}">
>> <mapper type="glob" from="sample.*" to="*" />
>> </present>
>> </fileset>
>> </delete>
>>
>>So, my question is, how do I set up a pattern where the fileset will get
>>a list of the "*" files rather than the sample.* files to delete?
>
>Reverse the mapper "from" and "to" attributes.
>
>What you are asking for in your fileset is all of the files in the
>${src.dir} that are named "sample.*" and that have a matching "*" file.
>What you want to be asking for is all the files named "*" for which there
>is a matching "sample.*". Change the mapper to:
>
> <mapper type="glob" from="*" to="sample.* />
>
>and you will have better luck.
>
>I'd also recommend an exclude of "sample.*" thrown in there so you aren't
>checking for the existence of "sample.sample.my.properties" or similar.
>Not necessary, but cleaner in understanding what the task is doing and a
>trifle more efficient. It would also have been clearer for debugging, as
>then your task wouldn't have done anything at all.
>
>
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