Question

I want to delete directories from an ant target without hardcoding how many directories there are. So far I have this:

<target name="clean">

    <delete includeemptydirs="true">
            <fileset dir="${src.dir}">
                <include name="${clean.dirs}"/>
            </fileset>
        </delete>

</target>

With the properties set as:

src.dir=./src
clean.dirs=./com/webservices/resources/jaxws;./com/asdf/entity;./com/asdf/service

This doesnt seem to work… What can I do?

Answer 1

Try this:-

<delete includeemptydirs="true">
    <fileset dir="${src.dir}" includes="${clean.dirs}"/>
</delete>

Properties file:-

src.dir=./src
clean.dirs=**/com/webservices/resources/jaxws,**/com/asdf/entity,**/com/asdf/service