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Reputation: 2487

How to make <exec "cp" exclude .svn files in ANT?

I have this ant talk to copy cgi-dir to cgi-dest.

    <exec executable="cp" failonerror="yes">
        <arg value="-a" />
        <arg value="${cgi-dir}" />
        <arg value="${cgi-dest}" />
    </exec>

I chose this method over the "copy" ant task because I wanted to preserve permissions. The ant task explicitly can't.

The problem is that it copies all the .svn directories it sees, how can I prevent this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1300

Answers (1)

Pulak Agrawal
Pulak Agrawal

Reputation: 2481

Well.. you can look here, here or here .

This will work I think: tar --exclude='.svn' -c -f - /path/to/sourcedir/* | (cd /path/to/destdir ; tar xfp -)

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Nevertheless, good luck.

Upvotes: 2

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