How to copy to multiple destinations with Gradle copy task?

Question

I am trying to copy one file to multiple destinations through a Gradle task. I found the following in other websites but I get an ERROR while running this task.

Answer 1

Here is a general snippet without copySpec for Gradle 4.1. As pointed out the trick is to use a base into and use relative into inside the closures (e.g. from closure).

task multiIntoCopy(type: Copy){
    into(projectDir) // copy into relative to this

    from("foo"){
        into("copied/foo") // will be projectDir/copied/foo
        // just standard copy stuff
        rename("a.txt", "x.txt")
    }

    from("bar"){
        into("copied/aswell/bar") //  projectDir/copied/copied/aswell/bar
    }

    from("baz") // baz folder content will get copied into projectDir

    //from("/bar"){ // this will mess things up, be very careful with the paths
    //    into("copied/aswell/bar")
    //}
}