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ANT Tasks - Delete
Apache Ant Tasks - Delete
Description
Delete task deletes a single file, a specified directory and all its files and subdirectories, or a set of files specified by one or more resource collections.
Properties
| Sr.No | Attributes & Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | File The file to delete, specified as either the simple filename (if the file exists in the current base directory), a relative-path filename, or a full-path filename. |
| 2 | DIR The directory to delete, including all its files and subdirectories. |
| 3 | Verbose Whether to show the name of each deleted file. |
| 4 | Quiet If the specified file or directory does not exist, do not display a diagnostic message. |
| 5 | Failonerror Controls whether an error (such as a failure to delete a file) stops the build or is merely reported to the screen. Only relevant if quiet is false. |
| 6 | Includeemptydirs Whether to delete empty directories when using filesets. |
| 7 | Deleteonexit Indicates whether to use File#deleteOnExit() if there is a failure to delete a file. This causes the JVM to attempt to delete the file when the JVM process is terminating. |
| 8 | removeNotFollowedSympnks Whether symbopc pnks (not the files/directories they pnk to) should be removed if they haven t been followed because followSympnks was false or the maximum number of symbopc pnks was too big. |
| 9 | performGCOnFailedDelete If Ant fails to delete a file or directory it will retry the operation once. If this flag is set to true it will perform a garbage collection before retrying the delete. |
Example
Usage
Create build.xml with the following content −
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="TutorialPoint" default="info">
<target name="info">
<delete file="text.txt" verbose="true"></delete>
</target>
</project>
Output
Running Ant on the above build file produces the following output −
F: utorialspointant>ant Buildfile: F: utorialspointantuild.xml info: [delete] Deleting: F: utorialspointant ext.txt BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 0 secondsAdvertisements