Ant copy task

[javaguy44]

Hi everyone,

Had an apache ant question and hope someone can help me out.

I am using the copy task to copy a directory to antoher directory.
Has anyone echoed the files copied, so that I can see the file names
of those files that were copied?

Thanks

 

[Rob Shepherd]

javaguy44 wrote:
Has anyone echoed the files copied, so that I can see the file names

of those files that were copied?

Ant will report something like... N files copied, I know this isn't a great help but Ant
will only copy things which need copying

eg. New files which don't exist at Dest
Modified files changed at source


It won't bother copying anything with equal size and equal timestamp

HTH

Rob

 

[JavaJug]

Hi everyone,

Had an apache ant question and hope someone can help me out.

I am using the copy task to copy a directory to antoher directory.
Has anyone echoed the files copied, so that I can see the file names
of those files that were copied?

Thanks

use the "verbose" attribute of the copy task (verbose="yes")
or "ant -v buildFile.xml" to force all verbose tasks to verbose="yes"
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/copy.html
(Ant Copy task man page)

 

[Tony Morris]

Ant will report something like... N files copied, I know this isn't a
great help but Ant

will only copy things which need copying

eg. New files which don't exist at Dest
Modified files changed at source


It won't bother copying anything with equal size and equal timestamp

Check out the "overwrite" attribute of the copy task.

--
Tony Morris
(BInfTech, Cert 3 I.T.)
Software Engineer
(2003 VTR1000F)
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform (1.4)
Sun Certified Developer for the Java 2 Platform

 

[javaguy44]

Thanks JavaJug...I looked at the doc, and just totally missed verbose.