How to rename a folder using Ant?

Question

I want to rename my application folder with a time stamp and then unzip a newer version of my app using the same folder name. Using the Ant (move task), it looks like you can mo

Answer 1

The move task does do what you're after, but the naming is a bit confusing. If you consider your directory is a 'file' in the Java sense - a file being a filesystem handle that can represent, among others a directory or a file in the usual sense - then the move task makes sense.

So the following

means rename/move the directorymySourceDirName to be instead myTargetDirName.

The following then

means to move the directory mySourceDirName to become a child directory of the existing someExistingDir directory.

So, in ant the 'file' attribute refers to the target in question, and the 'todir' attribute refers to the directory that is the new parent location for the target file or directory.