I'm trying to provide all *.cpp files in a folder to the c++ compiler through ant. But I get no further than ant giving gpp a giant string containing all the files. I tried to prove it by using a s...

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 directorie...

since I've inserted the option <lineEnding>unix</lineEnding> into my fileSets and files in my Maven assembly plugin configuration, strange files are placed in my tar. They look as foll...

I have a populated fileset and I need to print the matching filenames into a text file. I tried this: <fileset id="myfileset" dir="../sounds"> <include name="*.wav" /> <include n...

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 ...

If I have a fileset like this: <fileset dir="."> <exclude name="classes/*"/> <include name="**/zar.class"/> </fileset> The exclude takes precedence over the include an...

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 ...

I would like to create a target that cleans log files older than 7 days old in a specific folder. I get an error when I try to put in a "date" element inside a fileset. How can I go about this? &l...

I have a target of build.xml that creates a Zip file. To avoid creating the Zip if no file has been updated, I'd like to check for updates beforehand. AFAIK, uptodate is the task to use. Here is t...

How can I copy content of all subfolders of given folder using Ant? i.e. I have such folder structure folder/ folder/sub1/1.txt folder/sub1/f1/1.txt folder/sub2/2.txt ... I don't know exact na...

Let's say I have a collection of PDF files with the following paths: /some/path/pdfs/birds/duck.pdf /some/path/pdfs/birds/goose.pdf /some/path/pdfs/insects/fly.pdf /some/path/pdfs/insects/mosquito...

I have a set of files that I am picking up in an ant build, which I want to split into equal sized sub sets. What is a good simple way to do this in Ant without adding custom tasks. Example: Fi...

I have some files: dir/foo.txt dir/bar.txt dir/foobar.txt In an Ant apply task, I want to pass the list of files as arguments: <target name="atask"> <apply executable="${cmd}" paralle...

I have a fileset (which is returned from the Maven Ant task), and it contains all the jars I need to repack. This fileset is referenced by a refid. I only want to include our own jars, so I would l...