Re: Copying files from dirs specified by libpath

Wed, 31 May 2006 16:39:12 -0700 

William:
It seems I do this far too often and am corrected as there may be some stock ant task to do what you want ;) However, you can use ant-contrib tasks - specifically <for> or <foreach> which will give you iterative capabilities over a list/path. If you "wrap" that in a macrodef, well you can make it even prettier... 

For instance:

<project  name = "copy">
   <taskdef  resource = "net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>

   <macrodef  name = "copy-ref-id">
       <attribute  name = "dest-dir"/>
       <attribute  name = "dir-ref"/>

       <sequential>
           <mkdir dir = "@{dest-dir}"/>
           <var   name = "FILE_LIST"  unset = "true"/>
           <pathconvert property = "FILE_LIST"  refid = "@{dir-ref}"/>


           <for param = "dir"  list = "${FILE_LIST}"  delimiter = 
"${path.separator}">

               <sequential>
                   <copy todir = "@{dest-dir}">
                       <fileset dir = "@{dir}" includes = "**/*"/>
                   </copy>
               </sequential>
           </for>
       </sequential>
   </macrodef>
</project>

Now, to call the above...lets assume you actually use a libpath refid...

<copy-ref-id dest-dir = "/home/william/repo" dir-ref = "libpath"/>

Hope that helps...

Scot

William Press wrote:

Yes, that's correct.

-----Original Message-----

From: Scot P. Floess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 4:08 PM

To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Copying files from dirs specified by libpath

William:


So, just to clarify you want to iterate over each directory in libpath 
and copy the files from each into a directory?


William Press wrote:

  

Greetings,


 


I have a libpath reference I'd like to use for copying files.
Specifically, the libpath reference contains a list of directories,

    

and

  

I would like to copy all of the files contained in these directories
into a target directory.


 


I realize I can convert this into a comma-delimited list of

    

directories

  

using <pathconvert>, but it doesn't seem there's a way of deriving a
fileset from this comma-delimited list.


 


Has anybody here solved this before?


 


Thanks,

Bill



  
    



  


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