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Alphapage
Alphapage

Reputation: 919

Copy subfolders and files in msbuild

I'm unable to copy subfolders and files with this code:

<ItemGroup>
<Compile Include="C:\Test\Folder1\text.txt"/>
<Compile Include="C:\Test\text1.txt"/>
</ItemGroup>
    <Copy SourceFiles="@(Compile)" DestinationFiles="@(Compile->'C:\Destination\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')" />

I get this error: Could not find a part of the path.

How to copy C:\Test\ files and subfolders to C:\Destination\ with msbuild ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3424

Answers (2)

Vitaly Filatenko
Vitaly Filatenko

Reputation: 496

The same as in response above, but without additional list transformation:

<ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="C:\Test\**\Folder1\text.txt"/>
    <Compile Include="C:\Test\**\text1.txt"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Copy SourceFiles="@(Compile)" DestinationFolder="C:\Destination\%(RecursiveDir)" />

Upvotes: 3

Michael
Michael

Reputation: 1282

In order for the RecursiveDir metadata to be populated, you must specify a recursive wildcard (double asterisks) in your items' paths. The ** wildcard will mark the relative point at which the RecursiveDir should be applied. In your example, it sounds like you'd want to add the ** wildcard after C:\Test, so your code would need to look like the following example:

<ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="C:\Test\**\Folder1\text.txt"/>
    <Compile Include="C:\Test\**\text1.txt"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Copy SourceFiles="@(Compile)" DestinationFiles="@(Compile->'C:\Destination\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')" />

Adding the wildcard as shown above will copy the files to the following locations:

C:\Destination\text1.txt
C:\Destination\Folder1\text.txt

Upvotes: 3

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