update dist copy to client dirs question

[Kiarna Boyd <ki...@hotmail.com>]

Hello,

I'm trying to wrangle the following situation with ant 1.5 on linux.

a base directory that is updated with new material that needs to be pushed 
out(overwritten) to existing directories with some excludes.

so on one tree level(basedir):

base client1 client2

I have been trying to use copy

<copy overwrite="true" todir="${basedir}/**">
                <fileset dir="${masterdir}">
                        <exclude name="**/test1/"/>
                        <exclude name="**/test2"/>
                        <exclude name="**/test.properties"/>
                </fileset>


But copy reads the ** as literal rather than symbolic and will create a 
directory named **


I'm using ant.apache.org/manual on Directory-based tasks for a guide.

Can anyone suggest the proper way of doing this push and ideally not 
overwriting the base dir. I might have to move the base dir if it is too 
confusing.


Thank you


Kiarna





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Re: update dist copy to client dirs question

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 06 Mar 2003, Kiarna Boyd <ki...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have been trying to use copy
> 
> <copy overwrite="true" todir="${basedir}/**">
> 
> But copy reads the ** as literal rather than symbolic and will
> create a directory named **

todir="." (or the equivalent todir="${basedir}") should do the trick.

Stefan