I figured it out. There were extraneous spaces in the file list, so the
list really looked like this:
" /foo/bar/myfile.jar, /goo/car/myotherfile.jar"
This is due to the formatting in the property file where these are
defined.
I removed the spaces with a regex:
<propertyregex property="postcompile.files.lib.remote"
input="${files.lib.remote}"
regexp="^\s+|,\s+"
replace=","
global="true" />
This puts an extra comma at the beginning, but that seems to be okay.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Faulstich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:25 PM
To: Ant Users List
Cc: Eric Wood
Subject: Copying specific files with full path specified
I am trying to copy a list of files, which have fully qualified paths
EG: "/foo/bar/myfile.jar, /goo/car/myotherfile.jar"
or "F:\foo\bar\myfile.jar, G:\goo\car\myotherfile.jar"
Any advice on how to do this? (I'm using 1.6.5)
The following approaches do not work:
(1) use for loop. For example:
<for param="file" list="${files.lib.remote}">
<sequential>
<copy file="@{file}"
todir="${dir.dist.uses}"/>
</sequential>
</for>
This approach generates this message:
Warning: Could not find file /build/path/ /foo/bar/myfile.jar to
copy.
(2) use pathtofileset. For example:
<path id="postcompile.files.remote">
<filelist
dir="/"
files="${files.lib.remote}" />
</path>
<pathtofileset
dir="/"
pathrefid="postcompile.files.remote"
name="postcompile.path.remote" />
<copy todir="${dir.dist.uses}">
<fileset refid="postcompile.path.remote" />
</copy>
This approach yields:
/foo/bar/myfile.jar is not relative to /
BTW, my research of past postings shows that this (or a similar) topic
was covered in posts on the following dates:
2005-10-04: Jan Materne, Steve Loughram, et al discuss changes to copy
in 1.7 (Subject: Copy files according ant property)
2004-03-18: Jan Materne & Stefan Rufer - first approach suggested
(Subject: How to copy absolute paths)
2003-08-11: Adam Hardy & Peter Reilly discuss modifying <copy> to accept
filelists (Subject: "Copy" accepts FileList without any directory
limitation - enhancement?)
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Paul Faulstich
Systems Analyst
L.L. Bean, Inc.
Freeport, ME 04033
(207) 552-2294
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