copy multiple files in ant build file

[wong_powah]

My ant build file is:
....
<target name="mybin">
<exec executable = "make" dir = "${build.dir}/mybin/src" >
</exec>
<copy file="${build.dir}/mybin/src/activateContainer" todir="$
{bin.dir}"/>
<copy file="${build.dir}/mybin/src/assignContainer" todir="$
{bin.dir}"/>
<copy file="${build.dir}/mybin/src/copyContainer" todir="$
{bin.dir}"/>
<copy file="${build.dir}/mybin/src/createContainer" todir="$
{bin.dir}"/>
....
</target>

Instead of listing each binary file one by one for copying, is there a
shorter way of copying them?

 

[zzantozz]

My ant build file is:
...
<target name="mybin">
<exec executable = "make" dir = "${build.dir}/mybin/src" >
</exec>
<copy file="${build.dir}/mybin/src/activateContainer" todir="$
{bin.dir}"/>
<copy file="${build.dir}/mybin/src/assignContainer" todir="$
{bin.dir}"/>
<copy file="${build.dir}/mybin/src/copyContainer" todir="$
{bin.dir}"/>
<copy file="${build.dir}/mybin/src/createContainer" todir="$
{bin.dir}"/>
...
</target>

Instead of listing each binary file one by one for copying, is there a
shorter way of copying them?

Take a look at Ant's copy task and fileset type. In particular, here's
an example of using fileset with copy to copy several files without
listing them individually:
<copy todir="../dest/dir">
<fileset dir="src_dir">
<exclude name="**/*.java"/>
</fileset>
</copy>

See: <http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/copy.html>
and: <http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/fileset.html>