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<h2><a name="ftp">FTP</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>The ftp task implements a basic FTP client that can send, receive,
list, delete files, and create directories.  See below for descriptions and examples of how
to perform each task.</p>
<p><b>Note:</b> This task depends on external libraries not included in the Ant distribution.
See <a href="../install.html#commons-net">Library Dependencies</a> for more information.</p>
<p>The ftp task attempts to determine what file system is in place on the FTP server.
Supported server types are Unix, NT, OS2, VMS, and OS400.  In addition, NT and OS400 servers
which have been configured to display the directory in Unix style are also supported correctly.
Otherwise, the system will default to Unix standards.
<i>remotedir</i> must be specified in the exact syntax required by the ftp
server. If the usual Unix conventions are not supported by the server,
<i>separator</i> can be used to set the file separator that should be used
instead.</p>
<p>See the section on <a href="../dirtasks.html#directorybasedtasks">directory based
tasks</a>, on how the inclusion/exclusion of files works, and how to
write patterns.</p>
<p>
This task does not currently use the proxy information set by the
<a href="setproxy.html"><code>&lt;setproxy&gt;</code></a> task, and cannot go through
a firewall via socks. 
<p>
<b>Warning: </b> there have been problems reported concerning the ftp get with newer attribute.
Problems might be due to format of ls -l differing from what is expected by commons-net,
for instance due to specificities of language used by the ftp server in the directory listing.
If you encounter such a problem, please send an email including a sample directory listing
coming from your ftp server (ls -l on the ftp prompt).
<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td valign="top" width="15%"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top" width="65%"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top" width="20%"><b>Required</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">server</td>
    <td valign="top">the address of the remote ftp server.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">port</td>
    <td valign="top">the port number of the remote ftp server.
                     Defaults to port 21.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">userid</td>
    <td valign="top">the login id to use on the ftp server.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">password</td>
    <td valign="top">the login password to use on the ftp server.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">remotedir</td>
    <td valign="top">remote directory on the
                     ftp server
                     see table below for detailed usage
                     </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">action</td>
    <td valign="top">the ftp action to perform, defaulting to "send".
                     Currently supports "put", "get",
                     "del", "list", "chmod",
                     "mkdir" and "rmdir".</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">binary</td>
    <td valign="top">selects binary-mode ("yes") or text-mode
                     ("no") transfers.
                     Defaults to "yes"</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">passive</td>
    <td valign="top">selects passive-mode ("yes") transfers.
                     Defaults to "no"</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">verbose</td>
    <td valign="top">displays information on each file transferred if set 
                     to "yes". Defaults to "no".</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">depends</td>
    <td valign="top">transfers only new or changed files if set to 
                     "yes". Defaults to "no".</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">newer</td>
    <td valign="top">a synonym for <i>depends</i>.
    see timediffauto and timediffmillis</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">timediffauto</td>
    <td valign="top">set to <code>"true"</code>
    to make ant calculate the time difference between client and server.<br>
    <em>requires write access in the remote directory</em><br>
    Since ant 1.6</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <a name="timestampGranularity"/>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">timestampGranularity</td>
    <td valign="top">Specify either <code>MINUTE</code>, <code>NONE</code>,
     (or you may specify <code>""</code> which is equivalent to not specifying a value,
     useful for property-file driven scripts).  Allows override of the typical situation 
     in PUT and GET where local filesystem timestamps are <code>HH:mm:ss</code> 
     and the typical FTP server's timestamps are <code>HH:mm</code>.  This can throw 
     off uptodate calculations.  However, the default values should suffice for most
     applications.<br>
    Since ant 1.7
    </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No.  Only applies in "puts" and "gets" where the
    default values are <code>MINUTE</code> for PUT and <code>NONE</code> for GET.  
    (It is not as necessary in GET because we have the <b>preservelastmodified</b> option.)</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">timediffmillis</td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Deprecated</b>. Number of milliseconds to add to the time on 
    the remote machine to get the time on the local machine.  The <b>timestampGranularity</b> 
    attribute (for which the default values should suffice in most situations), and the 
    <b>serverTimeZoneConfig</b> option, should make this unnecessary. 
    <b>serverTimeZoneConfig</b> does the math for you and also knows about 
    Daylight Savings Time.<br>
    Since ant 1.6
    </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">separator</td>
    <td valign="top">sets the file separator used on the ftp server.
                     Defaults to "/".</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">umask</td>
    <td valign="top">sets the default file permissions for new files,
                     unix only.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">chmod</td>
    <td valign="top">sets or changes file permissions for new or existing files,
      unix only. If used with a put action, chmod will be issued for each file.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">listing</td>
    <td valign="top">the file to write results of the "list" action.
                     Required for the "list" action, ignored otherwise.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">ignoreNoncriticalErrors</td>
    <td valign="top">flag which permits the task to ignore some non-fatal error
      codes sent by some servers during directory creation: wu-ftp in particular.
      Default: false</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">skipFailedTransfers</td>
    <td valign="top">flag which enables unsuccessful file put, delete
    and get operations to be skipped with a warning and the
    remainder of the files still transferred. Default: false</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>  
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">preservelastmodified</td>
    <td valign="top">Give the copied files the same last modified
      time as the original source files (applies to getting files only).
      (<em>Note</em>: Ignored on Java 1.1)</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to false.</td>
  </tr>

    <tr>
    <td colspan="3">
    <p><b>The following attributes require <a href=
    "http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/download.html">
    jakarta-commons-net-1.4.0 or greater</a>.</b></p>
    <p>
    Use these options when the standard options don't work, because
    <ul><li>the server is in a different timezone and you need timestamp
    dependency checking</li>
    <li>the default timestamp formatting doesn't match the server display and
    list parsing therefore fails</li></ul>
    </p><p>
    If none of these is specified, the default mechanism of letting the system
    auto-detect the server OS type based on the FTP SYST command and assuming
    standard formatting for that OS type will be used.
    </p><p>
    To aid in property-file-based development where a build script is configured
    with property files, for any of these attributes, a value of <code>""</code>
    is equivalent to not specifying it.
    </p><p>
    Please understand that these options are incompatible with the autodetection
    scheme.  If any of these options is specified, (other than with a value of
    <code>""</code> ) a system type must be chosen and if systemTypeKey is not
    specified, UNIX will be assumed. The philosophy behind this is that these
    options are for setting non-standard formats, and a build-script author who
    knows what system he is dealing with will know what options to need to be
    set. Otherwise, these options should be left alone and the default
    autodetection scheme can be used and will work in the majority of cases.
    </p></td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">systemTypeKey</td>
    <td valign="top">Specifies the type of system in use on the server.
      Supported values are <code>"UNIX", "VMS", "WINDOWS", "OS/2", "OS/400",
      "MVS".</code>  If not specified, (or specified as <code>""</code>) and if
      no other xxxConfig attributes are specified, the autodectection mechanism
      based on the FTP SYST command will be used.<br>
      Since ant 1.7
    </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No, but if any of the following xxxConfig
        attributes is specified, UNIX will be assumed, even if <code>""</code>
        is specified here.
    </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td valign="top">serverTimeZoneConfig</td>
    <td valign="top">Specify as a Java
     <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/TimeZone.html">
     TimeZone</a> identifier, (e.g. <code>GMT</code>, <code>America/Chicago</code> or
    <code>Asia/Jakarta</code>) the timezone used by the server for timestamps.  This 
      enables timestamp dependency checking even when the server is in a different 
      time zone from the client. Time Zones know, also, about daylight savings time, 
      and do not require you to calculate milliseconds of difference.  If not specified, 
      (or specified as <code>""</code>), the time zone of the client is assumed.<br>
      Since ant 1.7
    </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    
    <td valign="top">defaultDateFormatConfig</td>
    <td valign="top">Specify in Java 
    <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html">
     SimpleDateFormat</a> notation, (e.g.
     <code>yyyy-MM-dd</code>), the date format generally used by the FTP server
      to parse dates.  In some cases this will be the only date format used.
      In others, (unix for example) this will be used for dates
      older than a year old. (See <b>recentDateFormatConfig</b>).  If not specified,
      (or specified as <code>""</code>), the default date format for the system
      type indicated by the <b>systemTypeKey</b> attribute will be used.<br>
      Since ant 1.7
    </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">
    No.
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">recentDateFormatConfig</td>
    <td valign="top">Specify in Java 
    <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html">
     SimpleDateFormat</a> notation,
      (e.g. <code>MMM dd hh:mm</code>) the date format used by the FTP server
      to parse dates less than a year old.  If not specified (or specified as
      <code>""</code>), and if the system type indicated by the system key uses
      a recent date format, its standard format will be used.<br>
      Since ant 1.7
    </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">serverLanguageCodeConfig</td>
    <td valign="top">a <a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt">
      two-letter ISO-639 language code</a> used to specify the
      language used by the server to format month names.  This only needs to be
      specified when the server uses non-numeric abbreviations for months in its
      date listings in a language other than English.  This appears to be
      becoming rarer and rarer, as commonly distributed ftp servers seem
      increasingly to use English or all-numeric formats.
      Languages supported are:
      <ul>
      	<li>en - English</li>
      	<li>fr - French</li>
      	<li>de - German</li>
      	<li>it - Italian</li>
      	<li>es - Spanish</li>
      	<li>pt - Portuguese</li>
      	<li>da - Danish</li>
      	<li>sv - Swedish</li>
      	<li>no - Norwegian</li>
      	<li>nl - Dutch</li>
      	<li>ro - Romanian</li>
      	<li>sq - Albanian</li>
      	<li>sh - Serbo-croatian</li>
      	<li>sk - Slovak</li>
      	<li>sl - Slovenian</li>
      </ul>
      If you require a language other than the above, see also the
      <b>shortMonthNamesConfig</b> attribute.<br>
      Since ant 1.7
    </td>

    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">shortMonthNamesConfig</td>
    <td valign="top">specify the month abbreviations used on the server in file
      timestamp dates as a pipe-delimited string for each month. For example,
      a set of month names used by a hypothetical
      Icelandic FTP server might conceivably be specified as
      <code>"jan|feb|mar|apr|ma&#xED;|j&#xFA;n|j&#xFA;l|&#xE1;g&#xFA;|sep|okt|n&#xF3;v|des"</code>.
      This attribute exists primarily to support languages not supported by
      the <b>serverLanguageCode</b> attribute.<br>
      Since ant 1.7
    </td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<h3>Note about remotedir attribute</h3>
<table  border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
 >
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="20%">Action<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="40%">meaning of <code>remotedir</code><br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;">use of nested <code>fileset</code>
(s)<br>
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="20%">send/put<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="40%">base directory to
which the files are sent<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;">they are used normally and
evaluated on the local machine<br>
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="20%">recv/get<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="40%">base directory from
which the files are retrieved<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;">the remote files located under
the <code>remotedir </code>matching the include/exclude patterns of
the <code>fileset&nbsp;</code></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="20%">del/delete<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="40%">base directory from
which files get deleted<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;">the remote files located under
the <code>remotedir </code>matching the include/exclude patterns of
the <code>fileset <br>
      </code></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="20%">list<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="40%">base directory from
which files are listed<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;">the remote files located under
the <code>remotedir </code>matching the include/exclude patterns of
the <code>fileset <br>
      </code></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="20%">mkdir</td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="40%">directory to create<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;">not used<br>
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="20%">chmod</td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="40%">base directory from
which the mode of files get changed<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;">the remote files located under
the <code>remotedir </code>matching the include/exclude patterns of
the <code>fileset <br>
      </code></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="20%">rmdir<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;" width="40%">base directory from
which directories get removed<br>
      </td>
      <td style="vertical-align: top;">the remote directories located
under the <code>remotedir </code>matching the include/exclude
patterns of the <code>fileset <br>
      </code></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table><h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
<h4>fileset</h4>
<p>The ftp task supports any number of nested <a
href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html"><code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code></a> elements to specify
the files to be retrieved, or deleted, or listed, or whose mode you want to change.</p>
<p>
The attribute <code>followsymlinks</code> of <code>fileset</code> is supported on
local (put) as well as remote (get, chmod, delete) filesets.
<em>Before ant 1.6 there was no support of symbolic links in remote filesets.
In order to exclude symbolic links (preserve the behavior of ant 1.5.x and older),
you need to explicitly set <code>followsymlinks</code> to <code>false</code>.</em>
On remote filesets hidden files are not checked for being symbolic links. Hidden
files are currently assumed to not be symbolic links.
</p>
<p>
Remote filesets do not support selectors.<br>
</p>

<h3>Sending Files</h3>
<p>The easiest way to describe how to send files is with a couple of examples:</p>
<pre>
  &lt;ftp server="ftp.apache.org"
       userid="anonymous"
       password="me@myorg.com"&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir="htdocs/manual"/&gt;
  &lt;/ftp&gt;
</pre>
<p>Logs in to <code>ftp.apache.org</code> as <code>anonymous</code> and 
uploads all files in the <code>htdocs/manual</code> directory 
to the default directory for that user.</p>
<pre>  &lt;ftp server="ftp.apache.org"
       remotedir="incoming"
       userid="anonymous"
       password="me@myorg.com"
       depends="yes"&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir="htdocs/manual"/&gt;
  &lt;/ftp&gt;</pre>
<p>Logs in to <code>ftp.apache.org</code> as <code>anonymous</code> and
uploads all new or changed files in the <code>htdocs/manual</code> directory 
to the <code>incoming</code> directory relative to the default directory
for <code>anonymous</code>.</p>
<pre>  &lt;ftp server="ftp.apache.org"
       port="2121"
       remotedir="/pub/incoming"
       userid="coder"
       password="java1"
       passive="yes"
       depends="yes"
       binary="no"&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir="htdocs/manual"&gt;
      &lt;include name="**/*.html"/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;/ftp&gt;</pre>
<p>Logs in to <code>ftp.apache.org</code> at port <code>2121</code> as
<code>coder</code> with password <code>java1</code> and uploads all new or
changed HTML files in the <code>htdocs/manual</code> directory to the
<code>/pub/incoming</code> directory. The files are transferred in text mode.
Passive mode has been switched on to send files from behind a firewall.</p>
<pre>  &lt;ftp server="ftp.hypothetical.india.org"
       port="2121"
       remotedir="/pub/incoming"
       userid="coder"
       password="java1"
       depends="yes"
       binary="no"
       systemTypeKey="Windows"
       serverTimeZoneConfig="India/Calcutta"&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir="htdocs/manual"&gt;
      &lt;include name="**/*.html"/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;/ftp&gt;</pre>
<p>Logs in to a Windows server at <code>ftp.hypothetical.india.org</code>
at port <code>2121</code> as <code>coder</code> with password <code>java1</code>
and uploads all new or changed (accounting for timezone differences)
HTML files in the <code>htdocs/manual</code>
directory to the <code>/pub/incoming</code> directory. The files are transferred
in text mode.</p>
<pre>  &lt;ftp server="ftp.nt.org"
       remotedir="c:\uploads"
       userid="coder"
       password="java1"
       separator="\"
       verbose="yes"&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir="htdocs/manual"&gt;
      &lt;include name="**/*.html"/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;/ftp&gt;</pre><p>Logs in to the Windows-based <code>ftp.nt.org</code> as 
<code>coder</code> with password <code>java1</code> and uploads all 
HTML files in the <code>htdocs/manual</code> directory to the 
<code>c:\uploads</code> directory.  Progress messages are displayed as each
file is uploaded.</p>
<h3>Getting Files</h3>
<p>Getting files from an FTP server works pretty much the same way as 
sending them does.  The only difference is that the nested filesets
use the remotedir attribute as the base directory for the files on the
FTP server, and the dir attribute as the local directory to put the files
into.  The file structure from the FTP site is preserved on the local machine.</p>
<pre>
  &lt;ftp action="get"
       server="ftp.apache.org"
       userid="anonymous"
       password="me@myorg.com"&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir="htdocs/manual"&gt;
      &lt;include name="**/*.html"/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;/ftp&gt;
</pre>
<p>Logs in to <code>ftp.apache.org</code> as <code>anonymous</code> and 
recursively downloads all .html files from default directory for that user 
into the <code>htdocs/manual</code> directory on the local machine.</p>
<pre>
  &lt;ftp action="get"
       server="ftp.apache.org"
       userid="anonymous"
       password="me@myorg.com"
       systemTypeKey="UNIX"
       defaultDateFormatConfig="yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir="htdocs/manual"&gt;
      &lt;include name="**/*.html"/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;/ftp&gt;
</pre>
<p>If apache.org ever switches to a unix FTP server that uses the new all-numeric
format for timestamps, this version would become necessary.  It would accomplish
the same functionality as the previous example but would successfully handle the
numeric timestamps.
The <code>systemTypeKey</code> is not necessary here but helps clarify what is
going on.</p>
<pre>
  &lt;ftp action="get"
       server="ftp.hypthetical.fr"
       userid="anonymous"
       password="me@myorg.com"
       defaultDateFormatConfig="d MMM yyyy"
       recentDateFormatConfig="d MMM HH:mm"
       serverLanguageCodeConfig="fr"&gt;
     &lt;fileset dir="htdocs/manual"&gt;
      &lt;include name="**/*.html"/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;/ftp&gt;
</pre>
<p>Logs into a UNIX FTP server at <code>ftp.hypothetical.fr</code> which displays
dates with French names in Standard European format, as <code>anonymous</code>, and
recursively downloads all .html files from default directory for that user
into the <code>htdocs/manual</code> directory on the local machine.</p>

<h3>Deleting Files</h3>
As you've probably guessed by now, you use nested fileset elements to 
select the files to delete from the remote FTP server.  Again, the 
filesets are relative to the remote directory, not a local directory.  In
fact, the dir attribute of the fileset is ignored completely.

<pre>
  &lt;ftp action="del"
       server="ftp.apache.org"
       userid="anonymous"
       password="me@myorg.com"&gt;
    &lt;fileset&gt;
      &lt;include name="**/*.tmp"/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;/ftp&gt;
</pre>
<p>Logs in to <code>ftp.apache.org</code> as <code>anonymous</code> and
tries to delete all *.tmp files from the default directory for that user.
If you don't have permission to delete a file, a BuildException is thrown.</p>
<h3>Listing Files</h3>
<pre>
  &lt;ftp action="list"
       server="ftp.apache.org"
       userid="anonymous"
       password="me@myorg.com"
       listing="data/ftp.listing"&gt;
    &lt;fileset&gt;
      &lt;include name="**"/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;/ftp&gt;
</pre>
<p>This provides a file listing in <code>data/ftp.listing</code> of all the files on
the FTP server relative to the default directory of the <code>anonymous</code>
user. The listing is in whatever format the FTP server normally lists files.</p>

<h3>Creating Directories</h3>
<p>Note that with the mkdir action, the directory to create is specified using the
remotedir attribute.</p>
<pre>
  &lt;ftp action="mkdir"
       server="ftp.apache.org"
       userid="anonymous"
       password="me@myorg.com"
       remotedir="some/remote/dir"/&gt;
</pre>
<p>This creates the directory <code>some/remote/dir</code> beneath the default root
directory.  As with all other actions, the directory separator character must be correct
according to the desires of the FTP server.</p>
<h3>Removing Directories</h3>
This action uses nested fileset elements to 
select the directories to remove from the remote FTP server.  The 
filesets are relative to the remote directory, not a local directory. 
The dir attribute of the fileset is ignored completely.
The directories to be removed must be empty, or contain only
other directories that have been also selected to be removed by the filesets
patterns, otherwise a BuildException will be thrown.
Also, if you don't have permission to remove a directory, a BuildException is 
thrown.

<pre>
  &lt;ftp action="rmdir"
       server="ftp.apache.org"
       userid="anonymous"
       password="me@myorg.com"
       remotedir="/somedir" &gt;
    &lt;fileset&gt;
      &lt;include name="dira"/&gt;
      &lt;include name="dirb/**"/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;/ftp&gt;
</pre>
<p>Logs in to <code>ftp.apache.org</code> as <code>anonymous</code> and
tries to remove <code>/somedir/dira</code> directory and
all the directories tree starting at, and including, <code>/somedir/dirb</code>.
When removing the <code>/somedir/dirb</code> tree,
it will start at the leaves moving up to the root, so that when
it tries to remove a directory it is sure all the directories under it are
already removed.
Obviously all the files in the tree must have been already deleted.
</p>
<p>As an example suppose you want to delete everything contained into 
<code>/somedir</code>, so invoke first the <code>&lt;ftp&gt;</code> task with
<code>action="delete"</code>, then with
<code>action="rmdir"</code> specifying in both cases
<code>remotedir="/somedir"</code> and

<pre>
    &lt;fileset&gt;
        &lt;include name="**"/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
</pre>

The directory specified in the <code>remotedir</code> parameter is never
selected for remove, so if you need to remove it, specify its parent in
<code>remotedir</code> parameter and include it in the 
<code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code> pattern, like <code>"somedir/**"</code>.
</p>
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