Re: Help recursively setting readonly attribute

I got it to work this way, that is, without the last * in the <include> elements.

<target name="removeReadOnly"
                description="Remove read-only attribute of files">
                <attrib readonly="false">
                                <fileset> 
                                                <include name="C:\Some Folder\**" />
                                                <include name="C:\Other Folder\**" />
                                </fileset> 
                </attrib>
</target>

-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson, Brian [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 9:29 AM
To: Chris Fouts
Subject: RE: Help recursively setting readonly attribute

I tried all kinds of options, for the attrib tag and could not get it to work.  I can use a fileset on other tags, like delete and copy, but it does not seem to work with attrib.  The only other option I know of that may work is a foreach loop, that may work for the files as I know this works.  However, I am not sure how to set the attribute for a folder.



Brian Wilson
Programmer Analyst, Associate
Department of Human Resources
Email: [email protected]


From: Chris Fouts [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 5:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NAnt-users] Help recursively setting readonly attribute

I thought I had this, but apparently not, since I can't overwrite files in them. I run as Administrator so I have permission to do this.

I want to set the read-only attribute for all files and subdirs under the two directories

<target name="removeReadOnly"
                description="Remove read-only attribute of files">
                <attrib readonly="false">
                                <fileset> 
                                                <include name="C:\Some Folder\**\*" />
                                                <include name="C:\Other Folder\**\*" />
                                </fileset> 
                </attrib>
</target>

What am I missing?

-chris



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