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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by de...@epiphany.com on 2001/05/09 23:31:21 UTC

How to concatenate files in ant

I need to do something like 

type a.txt b.txt c.txt >merged.txt

I tried the follwoing code but it doesn't seem to be working. Has anyone
done something
like that before? Thx.

		<copy tofile="merged.txt">
			<fileset dir="." >
				<patternset>
				 <include name="aa"/>
				 <include name="bb"/>
				 <include name="cc"/>
    				</patternset>
			</fileset>
		</copy>

Re: How to concatenate files in ant

Posted by Chris Winters <cw...@optiron.com>.

* debic@epiphany.com (debic@epiphany.com) [010509 18:08]:
> I need to do something like 
> 
> type a.txt b.txt c.txt >merged.txt
> 
> I tried the follwoing code but it doesn't seem to be working. Has anyone
> done something
> like that before? Thx.
> 
> 		<copy tofile="merged.txt">
> 			<fileset dir="." >
> 				<patternset>
> 				 <include name="aa"/>
> 				 <include name="bb"/>
> 				 <include name="cc"/>
>     				</patternset>
> 			</fileset>
> 		</copy>

I wrote a task to do this and would be happy to make it
available. I've been using it for months without a problem to create
EJB XML descriptors from lots (!) of individual XML files. The task
could probably written more elegantly, but I've only been doing Java
for a few months now :-)

Chris