Removing files with a "~" in their name

["Sauyet, Scott (OTS-HAR)" <Sc...@output.net>]

I seem to be going crazy.  I'm fairly new to Ant, but really find it useful.

I'm having a simple problem.  Some of the developers on my team are using 
Netbeans, which is adding backup files to the source directory, named, e.g.,
"MyClass.java~".  I don't know why the following isn't getting rid of them:

        <delete verbose="true">
            <fileset dir="src" includes="**/*.java~"/>
        </delete>

I thought there might be some RegEx problem with the tilde, and I tried
escaping it with "**/*.java\~", but that made no difference.  Any
suggestions?

Thanks,

  -- Scott

Re: Removing files with a "~" in their name

[peter reilly <pe...@corvil.com>]

You need to set defaultexcludes="no" in fileset.

Peter
On Thursday 08 May 2003 14:44, Sauyet, Scott (OTS-HAR) wrote:
> I seem to be going crazy.  I'm fairly new to Ant, but really find it
> useful.
>
> I'm having a simple problem.  Some of the developers on my team are using
> Netbeans, which is adding backup files to the source directory, named,
> e.g., "MyClass.java~".  I don't know why the following isn't getting rid of
> them:
>
>         <delete verbose="true">
>             <fileset dir="src" includes="**/*.java~"/>
>         </delete>
>
> I thought there might be some RegEx problem with the tilde, and I tried
> escaping it with "**/*.java\~", but that made no difference.  Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
>   -- Scott
>
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