How to delete a directory in unix box using ant

[Devi Sri]

Hi Ranchers,

Please help me.

How to delete a directory from a unix box by using ant?

Could you please suggest me ?

Thanks in advance.
[ August 13, 2008: Message edited by: Devisri Nanubala ]

[Jaikiran Pai]

Ant has the Delete task which can be used for doing this.

[Devi Sri]

Hi Jaikiran,

But that delete task is not working for my process.
As my unix box is on remote machine connected through ssh.

And I need to delete a directory in that remote unix box, through my local machine ant build.

[Jan Cumps]

Originally posted by Devisri Nanubala:
... As my unix box is on remote machine connected through ssh.

And I need to delete a directory in that remote unix box, through my local machine ant build.

You can execute commands on the remote box using the ant SSHEXEC optional task.

The unix command to unconditionaly remove a directory, even if it is not empty, is
(take care, danger!)

rm -fr dirname
[ August 13, 2008: Message edited by: Jan Cumps ]

[Devi Sri]

Hi Jan,

Thankyou. It's working.