It's not that Ant doesn't support this - it's that the JDK does not provide a way to query or access file attributes.
The short answer is that if you want to do this you'll need to write a custom task the uses JNI or execs a native executable to get this information.
JEC
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| Jeffrey E. (Jeff) Care | |
| IBM WebSphere Application Server Development |
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/08/2006 03:30:10 PM:
> Has anyone know how (short of writing a custom task or selector) to create
> a file set based on the files' attribute flags? Specifically, I'd like to
> create a set of files that have the Windows "archive" bit set. I saw the
> Ant Attrib task, but it appears to be write only. I'm looking for a way to
> publish a large Web site (10K+ files), using the "archive" flag, but so far
> it seems Ant doesn't support this.
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> If Ant doesn't presently have this ability, does anyone know if it will in
> the future?
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