foreach directory copy question

foreach directory copy question

foreach directory copy question

2003-03-13 - By Kiarna Boyd

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Good afternoon,

I'm trying to copy the contents of a master directory to several client
directories as part of my build.
The requirements include not to overwrite some of the existing client build
sub dirs.

I read the archieves and saw a section on the topic and Simon was kind
enough to send me some examples using foreach.

However I am having a hard time understanding some of it and would greatly
appreciate your assistance.

So to begin the masterdir
I also need to know how to change the delimiter in the foreach to new line
rather than coma. So I may use the out put form unix 'ls'

delimiter=? what is the ant symbol for newline?

I'd like to do the list from a Unix ls cmd to get a current listing of the
new client directories each time the build is run.

<foreach list="${dev.env}"
delimiter=""
target="newversion"
param="thisEnv">

</foreach>

<target name="newversion">
<echo message="environment: ${thisEnv}"/>
<copy todir="${builddir}/${thisEnv}">
<fileset dir="${masterdir}"/>
</copy>
</target>

I believe I have to add a filset exclude for the sub directories I do not
want copied.

I tried to use wildcards but ant actually made directories named '**'.
;)

Thank you for your time.

Kiarna

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