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MJVDM

Reputation: 3963

how to copy content of a folder to another specify folder in grunt-copy task

I have this snipped in my gruntfile.js: 

copy: {
    dist: {
        files: [
            {
                expand: true,
                dot: true,
                cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>',
                dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
                src: [
                    '*.{ico,txt}',
                    '.htaccess',
                    'images/{,*/}*.{webp,gif}',
                    'styles/fonts/{,*/}*.*',
                    'bower_components/sass-bootstrap/fonts/*.*',
                    'bower_components/components-font-awesome/{,*/}*.*',
                    'bower_components/ckeditor/**/*.*',
                    'resources/{,*/}*.*'
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    },

this copies all the files from the src:[...] to the same folder in dist/. How can I achieve that some files get copied directly into the folder?

So for example instead of copying from /resources to "dist/resources", I want to copy to "dist/" directly.

EDIT: to make things clear:

I want all contents of "/resources" to be directly in "/dist". So for example if I have "resources/data/..", I want it to be "dist/data/.." Basically the internal folder/file structure in resources should be preserved, but the root should now be /dist instead of /resources

Upvotes: 0

Views: 482

Answers (1)

Mangled Deutz
Mangled Deutz

Reputation: 11403

Use flatten: true, and specify two sets of files (one flattened, the other not).

Here:

dist: {
    files: [
        // All these are going (as previously) to be copied along with their dir structure
            {
              expand: true,
              dot: true,
              cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>',
              dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
              src: [
                  '*.{ico,txt}',
                  '.htaccess',
                  'images/{,*/}*.{webp,gif}',
                  'styles/fonts/{,*/}*.*',
                  'bower_components/sass-bootstrap/fonts/*.*',
                  'bower_components/components-font-awesome/{,*/}*.*',
                  'bower_components/ckeditor/**/*.*',
                  ]
            },
        // These will get flattened
            {
              expand: true,
              dot: true,
              flatten: true,
              cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>',
              dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
              src: [
                  'resources/{,*/}*.*'
                  ]
            }

        ]
    }
},

You may also perform transformation on the final path of the file by implementing a custom rename function on your file objects.

More about flatten and rename here.

[UPDATE]

This below is what you describe in your update (change cwd).

dist: {
    files: [
        // All these are going (as previously) to be copied along with their dir structure
            {
              expand: true,
              dot: true,
              cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>',
              dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
              src: [
                  '*.{ico,txt}',
                  '.htaccess',
                  'images/{,*/}*.{webp,gif}',
                  'styles/fonts/{,*/}*.*',
                  'bower_components/sass-bootstrap/fonts/*.*',
                  'bower_components/components-font-awesome/{,*/}*.*',
                  'bower_components/ckeditor/**/*.*',
                  ]
            },
            {
              expand: true,
              dot: true,
              cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/resources',
              dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
              src: [
                  '{,*/}*.*'
                  ]
            }

        ]
    }
},

Upvotes: 1

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