diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/delete.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/delete.html index c72da8913..579c82bd2 100644 --- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/delete.html +++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/delete.html @@ -12,11 +12,14 @@
Deletes a single file, a specified directory and all its files and
subdirectories, or a set of files specified by one or more
-FileSets.
-When specifying a set of files, empty directories are not removed by
-default.
-To remove empty directories, use the includeEmptyDirs
attribute.
-
<fileset>
is that
+directories are not included; however the removal of empty directories can
+be triggered when using nested filesets by setting the
+includeEmptyDirs
attribute to true. Note that this
+attribute is meaningless in the context of any of the various resource
+collection types that do include directories, but that no attempt
+will be made to delete non-empty directories in any case.
If you use this task to delete temporary files created by editors and it doesn't seem to work, read up on the @@ -37,7 +40,7 @@ in Directory-based Tasks, and see the filename (if the file exists in the current base directory), a relative-path filename, or a full-path filename.
<fileset>
is specified.<fileset>
.
+ dir
.<fileset>
.
+ <fileset>
.
+ dir
.
@@ -112,14 +115,14 @@ in Directory-based Tasks, and see the
<fileset>
.
+ <fileset>
.
+ deletes all files and subdirectories of build
, without
build
itself.
Copyright © 2000-2002,2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation. +
Copyright © 2000-2002, 2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights Reserved.