I have a file of files that I need to load into a property and filter according to expressions similar to the "include" and "exclude" elements of a patternset.
For example, assume I have a file, fof.dat, containing the following. /export/home/myaccount/myapp/bin/pgm1 /export/home/myaccount/myapp/bin/pgm2 /export/home/myaccount/myapp/config/cfg1 /export/home/myaccount/myapp/lib/lib1.jar /export/home/myaccount/myapp/lib/lib2.jar /export/home/myaccount/myapp/lib/lib3.jar I would like code something like the following. <patternset id="bin_files"> <include name="bin/*"/> </patternset> <loadfile property="bin_file_list" srcFile="fof.dat"> <filterchain> <filefilter dir="/export/home/myaccount/myapp"> <patternset refid="bin_files"/> </filefilter> </filterchain> </loadfile> After the loadfile task, the bin_file_list property would contain the following. /export/home/myaccount/myapp/bin/pgm1 /export/home/myaccount/myapp/bin/pgm2