Question

I want to execute ANT delete target, so that I can delete all files in the directory that mach some criteria:

<delete quiet="true">
    <fileset dir="${java.io.tmpdir}" includes="soapirp*.log*"/>
</delete>

it does not work, I think it happens because ant is trying to invoke unix rm -f command which supposed to delete file without asking me to confirm the deletion, but this does not work, i tested it by running

rm - f filename 

it still prompts me for the confirmation the only way I made it work by running:

/usr/bin/rm -f filename 

then eveyting works as expected , I need to tell the ant to use the different version of rm I guess but how ??

Answer 1

ant uses the Java File API to delete files, not rm. Your problem must be elsewhere.

(and there must be no space between - and f).