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darkraven
darkraven

Reputation: 61

How to exclude empty directories from zipfileset

I have an ant target for creating zip like this -

<zip destfile="${dist}/myzip.zip">
    <zipfileset prefix="product/install" includes="docs/resources/**,docs/*.*" excludes="docs/build.bat,docs/*.xml,docs/resources/*.html"/>
</zip>

Now, how do I ensure that empty directories don't get included in this zipfileset.

Eg: docs/resources directory only has html files, all of which I have excluded above. How do I make sure docs/resources folder doesn't get included.

Should I be checking for this manually everytime? or is there an option like includeEmptyDirs="false"?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2189

Answers (1)

cy3er
cy3er

Reputation: 1699

I think there isn't an option for this in zip task, see documentation.

But what you can do is to make a copy with excludes/includes, and define to exclude the empty directories and then call the zip task on the copied folder:

<copy todir="tmp2" includeEmptyDirs="false">
    <fileset dir="tmp1" excludes="**/*.txt"/>
</copy>
<zip>...

Documentation of copy

Upvotes: 3

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