Dave
Thanks for the feedback. It does work on directories, in that if you
have...
<purge keep="5">
<fileset dir="/foo" />
</purge>
...then it will (should!) search and consider all sub folders of "foo".
E.g., /foo/baz/logs/file.txt would be a file considered for purging.
However, what it doesn't do is delete directories. For the way I work,
it'd be a pain for "log" fodlers to start being removed. Then again, if
directory deletion is something you need, I think it'd be simple to
add it as a flag.
Cheers
Richard
David Colton (ext. 799) wrote:
> Richard.
>
> Congrats on a developing a very useful task. I'll be hitting this problem
> soon when I set up a continuous build.
>
> Have you tried using this \ would this work on directories. We also build
> nightly and every now and then a build fails when the disk in full.
>
> If it doesn't work on directories it would be nice if it did. I don't have
> time at the moment myself to look into this but will get to it eventually.
> If I do need to make changes to get it working with directories I'll send
> you any updates.
>
> Dave.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Dallaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 15 October 2002 11:03
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: Re: Delete all but the most recent N files
>
>
> Just wanted to thank every one who chipped in with ideas for solving
> this problem. It was a huge help in digging around Ant trying to find a
> good way to "purge" old files.
>
> In the end, I've build a task to do the job. It's available here:
>
> http://www.dallaway.com/ant/
>
> Comments, bug reports, suggestions... always welcome.
>
> If we find related uses for the components of this task, then maybe that
> would be a good time to think about refactoring it into something more
> generic.
>
> Thanks again
> Richard
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