ant task to delete files and directory that start with the same name

Question

In my folder example

I have a directory called test. It contains many subfolders I also have files called test.properties and test.properties.sample

I am trying to create an ant script to remove the files and directory

Do I have to have 3 different tasks to delete these files?

For example

<delete dir="test" />
<delete file="test.properties" />
<delete file="test.properties.sample" />

I would rather have something like

<delete dir="test*" />

so it deletes everything in the folder that starts with test

Solution

Use a fileset to select files with a pattern, a dirset to select directories with a pattern.

This should do the job:

<delete>
    <dirset dir="${basedir}" includes="test*" />
    <fileset dir="${basedir}" includes="test*" />
</delete>