Bill:
That's great :)
Glad to help...
I'm gonna add this to my ant scripts for my open source project :)
Scot
William Press wrote:
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
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