fileset

I have been googling for the "Differences between fileset and path" article for some time, but have found nothing useful. For example, what is the difference between the following (say, there is a someDir directory, which contains .jar files and has no subdirectories): <path id="somePathId"> <pathelement path="someDir"/> </path> <path id="someId"> <path refid="somePathId" /> </path> and <path id="someId"> <fileset dir="someDir"> <include name="*.*"> </fileset> </path> ? Thresh They are used in different situations. fileset is used to specify a group of files. You can use selector s and

In an Ant target I get a property, containing the list of directories to be included in further action (copying, filtering, etc.). It looks like this: directories=dir1, dir2, dir3 I need a way to convert this list to a fileset or patternset that selects all the files in these directories. I know I can use a script to generate pattern strings and then use it in the "include" or "exclude", but is there are a way to avoid scripts? Note that as of Ant 1.9.4, there is a new construct <multirootfileset> that provides that functionality, even if the dirs are not siblings: <multirootfileset basedirs="

How can I create an ant fileset which excludes certain directories based on the contents of the directory? I use ant to create a distribution jar which has each localization in separate directories, some of which are incomplete and should not be released. I would like to add something to the directory (for example a file named incomplete.flag ) so that ant excludes the directory. Then I can delete the file when translation is complete, and include it in the build without modifying build.xml. Given this directory structure: proj + locale + de-DE + en-US + fr-FR This fileset excludes all

As I've readen ant doesn't provide 'fileset' attribute when downloading files from remote machine via scp task. It works when sending files from local machine, but It doesn't work when starting in remote machine. That's from documentation. So in remote machine I have some folders and load of files in every directory. I want to download all folders and one specified file from every of them. Downloading all files and then deleting unneeded files won't be solution beacuse there are thousands of files. So. How to download all folders (only create the on disk without content) from specified