DELETE Ant task? Anything faster? (Edit Nevermind)

Hobbes

you used to be able to delete a whole directory fast in ANT, now it appears a lot is deprecated and I have to use fileset to list what I want to delete.

So how do I delete faster in ANT without using deprecations, or spawning to the OS?

<delete includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="yes">
    <fileset dir="${dir.to.delete}" casesensitive="no">
        <include name="**/**"/>
    </fileset>
</delete>

This works, but is horribly slow (as there are around 200,000 files in the subdirectories).

Edit: I was using the wrong combinations of arguments which was triggering the deprecation message. This below works fine.

<delete dir="${dir.to.delete}" failonerror="yes"/>

bonkey

'cording to the manual, Hobbes, the delete command takes either a file attribute, a dir attribute, or a fileset.

It says you must have one or the other, unless a fileset is used.

So I'd say a spot of R'ing TFM might should you on this one.

jc

Edit: Apparently you've just discovered this yourself.

Hobbes

bonkey wrote:

So I'd say a spot of R'ing TFM might should you on this one.

Actually I've read the manual.

If you use an attribute which is used by the fileset eg. includeemptydirs="true", then it thinks your trying to delete files not a directory and that is what triggered the Deprecation warnings.