-----Original Message----- From: David Weintraub [mailto:qazw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 6:10 AM To: Ant Users List; Alexei Alexei Subject: Re: Ant- copy file from one folder to many folders
/* The standard <copy> task requires a single target name, so you couldn't do it with the standard Ant tasks. However, there is a special addition to Ant called the AntContrib tasks <http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/>. These extend Ant to allow for all sorts of tricks. There's one special AntContrib task called <foreach> <http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/foreach.html>. This will allow you to go through each directory in a list, and use that as the "todir" parameter of a copy task. It'll look something like this: <target name="orig"> <foreach target="copyclass" parameter="copy.target"> <path> <dirset dir="myfolder*/**"/> </path> </foreach> </target> <target name="copy"> <copy todir="${copy.target}" file="myclass.class"/> </target> READ THE COMPLETE DOCUMENTATION ON THE ANT-CONTRIB PACKAGE! You must download the AntContrib JAR file, put it in your Ant's "lib" directory, and add a <taskdef> task to your build.xml file. */ Better use <for> instead of <foreach>, as foreach opens a new project scope for every target execution. Also with <for> there's no need for an extra target. So with a given structure like that = c:\test>tree /A /F C:. +---myfolder1 | myclass.class | \---myfolder2 | myclass.class | +---test | | myclass.class | | | \---test2 | myclass.class | \---test3 myclass.class you can use = <project name="foobar" default="main" basedir="."> <!-- // Taskdefs --> <!-- Import AntContrib --> <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml" /> <!-- Taskdefs // --> <target name="main"> <for param="dir"> <dirset dir="C:/test" includes="**"/> <sequential> <copy todir="@{dir}" overwrite="true" verbose="true"> <fileset dir="C:/test/myfolder1" includes="myclass.class" /> </copy> </sequential> </for> </target> </project> btw Alexei = your given situation was a bit irritating to me, as the file myclass.class is already existent in all directories, including the one you want to copy from (myfolder1 in your example). i understood it like that = a new myclass.class drops in myfolder1 and you need to spread it recursive in all subdirectories, right !? Regards, Gilbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
