How to check if directory exists before deleting it, using ANT?

Question

Using ANT, how can i make sure that directory exists before attempting to remove it?

As part of my current clean task, i

Answer 1

For this specific case, I'm not going to answer the question "how to find if a directory exists", because that's already been answered, but I'm just going to point out that in your clean task you can use failonerror="false" to keep the ant task from exiting. This should be suitable in a clean task because if there's nothing to clean, it should not be a problem.

    
        
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This is useful if you don't want to install ant-contrib or can't for some reason.