Copy one file in target directory on deploy from visual studio team services

Question

I\'m using VSTS as a build server, and while building I want to copy the bin folder contents to the root of the target, and also custom files from another folder to this tar

Answer 1

The "flattenFolders" option is also available as a YAML task parameter. The following code excerpt shows a CopyFiles@2 task which copyies the build output to the $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory). When I specify the option flattenFolders: true the nested folder structure bin\release\...\My.exe is flattened, means the exe files is copied to the root of $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory).

- task: CopyFiles@2
  displayName: 'Copy Files to: $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
  inputs:
    SourceFolder: '$(system.defaultworkingdirectory)'
    Contents: |
     **\bin\$(BuildConfiguration)\**\*.exe
    TargetFolder: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
    flattenFolders: true

Further documentation concerning the CopyFiles task can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/copy-files?view=vsts&tabs=yaml