How to copy absolute paths

[Stefan Rufer <st...@netcetera.ch>]

Hi

I've troubles doing the most simple copy command having an absolute path
to a source file. Of course the example below can be coded in a different
way, but: We have a property-file that contains a property like

srcfiles=/tmp/a.file,/anotherplace/b.file

Therefore we would like to copy the files included in this comma separated
list to a destination directory.

Any hint why the following snipplet does not work appreciated.


Thanks
Stefan


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<project basedir="./" default="test" name="test">
  <target name="test">
    <mkdir dir="dest"/>
    <copy todir="dest" flatten="true">

      <fileset dir="/" includes="/tmp/src.file"/>

      <!-- as soon as the includes filelist contains files starting
           with root '/', the filelist seems to have no effect any more
           (tough ant shows the correct list of files in debug mode). -->
    </copy>
  </target>
</project>

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Stefan Rufer                                   stefan.rufer@netcetera.ch
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