Question

I move files using Ant move function.
I want that token #COUNTER# in files was replaced by another token during moving this files.

I know that the Ant copy function allows to copy with replace. Can the move function do this? If not, is there some workaround?

Answer 1

The ant tasks copy and move behave the same when using filters to replace tokens. They both support the filtering attribute.

But you can also call the replace task yourself after you copied/moved the files.

Example (from the doc):

<replace dir="${src}" value="VALUE">
  <include name="**/*.html"/>
  <replacetoken>#COUNTER#</replacetoken>
</replace>