This works like a charm. Thanks again for the help! - Bill
-----Original Message----- From: Scot P. Floess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 4:39 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Copying files from dirs specified by libpath 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 >> >> >> >> > > -- Scot P. Floess 27 Lake Royale Louisburg, NC 27549 252-478-8087 (Home) 919-754-4592 (Work) Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim _______________________________________________________________________ Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
