Copying specific files with full path specified

[Paul Faulstich <pf...@llbean.com>]

I am trying to copy a list of files, which have fully qualified paths

EG: "/foo/bar/myfile.jar, /goo/car/myotherfile.jar"
 or "F:\foo\bar\myfile.jar, G:\goo\car\myotherfile.jar"

Any advice on how to do this? (I'm using 1.6.5)

The following approaches do not work:

(1) use for loop.  For example:

		<for param="file" list="${files.lib.remote}">
			<sequential>
				<copy file="@{file}"
todir="${dir.dist.uses}"/>
			</sequential>
		</for>

  This approach generates this message:

     Warning: Could not find file /build/path/   /foo/bar/myfile.jar to
copy.

(2) use pathtofileset. For example:

		<path id="postcompile.files.remote">
			<filelist 
				dir="/"
				files="${files.lib.remote}" />
		</path>
		<pathtofileset 
			dir="/" 
				pathrefid="postcompile.files.remote" 
				name="postcompile.path.remote" />
		<copy todir="${dir.dist.uses}">
			<fileset refid="postcompile.path.remote" />
		</copy>

  This approach yields:

     /foo/bar/myfile.jar is not relative to /



BTW, my research of past postings shows that this (or a similar) topic
was covered in posts on the following dates:

2005-10-04: Jan Materne, Steve Loughram, et al discuss changes to copy
in 1.7 (Subject: Copy files according ant property)

2004-03-18: Jan Materne & Stefan Rufer - first approach suggested
(Subject: How to copy absolute paths)

2003-08-11: Adam Hardy & Peter Reilly discuss modifying <copy> to accept
filelists (Subject: "Copy" accepts FileList without any directory
limitation - enhancement?)

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Re: Copying specific files with full path specified

[Dominique Devienne <dd...@gmail.com>]

> I am trying to copy a list of files, which have fully qualified paths
>
> EG: "/foo/bar/myfile.jar, /goo/car/myotherfile.jar"
>  or "F:\foo\bar\myfile.jar, G:\goo\car\myotherfile.jar"
>
> (1) use for loop.  For example:
>
>                <for param="file" list="${files.lib.remote}">
>                        <sequential>
>                                <copy file="@{file}"
> todir="${dir.dist.uses}"/>
>                        </sequential>
>                </for>
>
>  This approach generates this message:
>     Warning: Could not find file /build/path/   /foo/bar/myfile.jar to copy.

If I remember right, you can't have spaces after the comma.

Plus I think you'd need to use <copy file="" tofile="">, and not
todir="", no? Maybe using file+todir does an implicit flatten mapper?
I've only ever used file+tofile, and filesets+todir, where the
relative path in the fileset to appended to todir.

OK file+todir seems a valid combi from the manual, but it's unclear
whether it flattens or not. I would guess yes, similar to a cp unix
command.

> (2) use pathtofileset. For example:
>     /foo/bar/myfile.jar is not relative to /

This sounds a bit like a bug. --DD

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