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Samples of the Ant copy task <copy todir=”${temp.dir.classes}”> <copy todir=”${dist}”> This copies all files in directories called images that are located in the directory tree defined by ${src} to the destination directory defined by ${dist}, but excludes all *.gif files from the copy.<\/strong><\/p>\n <copy todir=”${dist}”> The same as the example above, but expressed using nested elements.<\/strong><\/p>\n <delete dir=”${dist}”> Deleting the original set of files, the delete task can act as an implicit fileset.<\/strong><\/p>\n Flatten directories when performing an Ant copy<\/strong> <!– build a temporary lib dir, and flatten out the jars into one folder –><\/p>\n <copy todir=”${temp.dir.lib}” flatten=”true”> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samples of the Ant copy task <copy file=”${resources.dir}\/MANIFEST.MF” tofile=”${temp.dir.meta-inf}\/MANIFEST.MF” overwrite=”true” \/> <copy file=”${resources.dir}\/managed-beans.xml” tofile=”${temp.dir.web-inf}\/managed-beans.xml” overwrite=”true” \/> <copy file=”${resources.dir}\/navigation-rules.xml” tofile=”${temp.dir.web-inf}\/navigation-rules.xml” overwrite=”true” \/> <copy file=”${resources.dir}\/monitoring-managed-beans.xml” tofile=”${temp.dir.web-inf}\/monitoring-managed-beans.xml” overwrite=”true” \/> <copy file=”${resources.dir}\/monitoring-navigation-rules.xml” tofile=”${temp.dir.web-inf}\/monitoring-navigation-rules.xml” overwrite=”true” \/> <copy file=”${resources.dir}\/faces-config.xml” tofile=”${temp.dir.web-inf}\/faces-config.xml” overwrite=”true” \/> <copy file=”${resources.dir}\/log4j.properties” tofile=”${temp.dir.classes}\/log4j.properties” overwrite=”true” \/> <copy file=”${resources.dir}\/commons-logging.properties” tofile=”${temp.dir.classes}\/commons-logging.properties” overwrite=”true” \/> <copy todir=”${temp.dir.classes}”> <fileset dir=”${src.dir}”> <include name=”**\/*.xml”\/> <include name=”**\/*.xsl”\/> <include…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[209,4193,4196,4190,4194,4192,4188,4195,4189,4191],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apache-ant","tag-ant","tag-ant-copy-task-examples","tag-ant-copy-task-guide","tag-ant-copy-task-samples","tag-ant-task-copy-delete-examples","tag-apache-ant-copy","tag-copy-task","tag-how-to-use-ant-copy-task","tag-samples","tag-samples-ant-copy-task"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4398,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/4398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<copy file=”${resources.dir}\/MANIFEST.MF” tofile=”${temp.dir.meta-inf}\/MANIFEST.MF” overwrite=”true” \/>
\n<copy file=”${resources.dir}\/managed-beans.xml” tofile=”${temp.dir.web-inf}\/managed-beans.xml” overwrite=”true” \/>
\n<copy file=”${resources.dir}\/navigation-rules.xml” tofile=”${temp.dir.web-inf}\/navigation-rules.xml” overwrite=”true” \/>
\n<copy file=”${resources.dir}\/monitoring-managed-beans.xml” tofile=”${temp.dir.web-inf}\/monitoring-managed-beans.xml” overwrite=”true” \/>
\n<copy file=”${resources.dir}\/monitoring-navigation-rules.xml” tofile=”${temp.dir.web-inf}\/monitoring-navigation-rules.xml” overwrite=”true” \/>
\n<copy file=”${resources.dir}\/faces-config.xml” tofile=”${temp.dir.web-inf}\/faces-config.xml” overwrite=”true” \/>
\n<copy file=”${resources.dir}\/log4j.properties” tofile=”${temp.dir.classes}\/log4j.properties” overwrite=”true” \/>
\n<copy file=”${resources.dir}\/commons-logging.properties” tofile=”${temp.dir.classes}\/commons-logging.properties” overwrite=”true” \/><\/p>\n
\n<fileset dir=”${src.dir}”>
\n<include name=”**\/*.xml”\/>
\n<include name=”**\/*.xsl”\/>
\n<include name=”**\/*.properties”\/>
\n<\/fileset>
\n<\/copy><\/p>\n
\n<fileset dir=”${src}”
\nincludes=”**\/images\/*”
\nexcludes=”**\/*.gif”
\n\/>
\n<\/copy><\/p>\n
\n<fileset dir=”${src}”>
\n<include name=”**\/images\/*”\/>
\n<exclude name=”**\/*.gif”\/>
\n<\/fileset>
\n<\/copy><\/p>\n
\n<include name=”**\/images\/*”\/>
\n<exclude name=”**\/*.gif”\/>
\n<\/delete><\/p>\n
\nHere’s a code snippet from an Ant build script where I begin with a hierarchical structure of jar files in my development environment, then flatten out all my lib subdirectories into one directory in my production environment when I copy all the jar files to my production library directory:<\/p>\n
\n<fileset dir=”${lib.dir}”>
\n<exclude name=”${cob.lib.dir}” \/>
\n<exclude name=”junit*” \/>
\n<include name=”**\/*.jar”\/>
\n<include name=”**\/*.zip”\/>
\n<\/fileset>
\n<\/copy><\/p>\n