Ant — copying files and subdirectories from only one subdirectory on a tree

Question

I\'d like to copy files and subdirectories using Ant from a single subdirectory without copying the rest of the directory structure and contents. For example, I\'d like to

Answer 1

It's not that difficult...

When you use the include directive, it will only include the files that match the pattern you give it. In this case, I'm copying only those files that have /dir3/ somewhere in their full path name. This includes sub-directories under dir3 and all files under dir3.

You can use the exclude directive to override the include directives:

This will copy all sub-directories and files in those sub directories, but not the files under dir3 itself. The * matches all files in the directory while ** matches the all the files in the entire directory tree.

Notice this will create a directory temp/dir2/dir3. If I want temp/dir3, I have to set my fileset to the parent directory of dir3:

Doing this:

Will create a directory temp with all the files directly under dir3 directly under temp. There will also be a temp/dir4 and temp/dir5 directory containing all the files (and directory trees) under those directories.