Is it possible you're running afoul of "default
excludes"?

see
http://ant.apache.org/manual/dirtasks.html#defaultexcludes

HTH,
Matt

--- neo anderson <javadeveloper999@(protected):

>
> I use the following task to delete hidden files.
>
>  <delete file=".hidden.txt"/>
>
> However, there are many files needed to be removed.
> If I use
>
>  <delete file=".*.txt"/>
>
> It won't delete hidden files ( but <delete
> file="*.txt"/> works for removing
> file ext with txt )
>
> What is the correct syntax to remove hidden files
> using ant tasks?
>
> Thanks in advice,
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