Question

Let’s say that C:/dir2/ has one file called file2.txt
And that C:/dir3/has one file called file3.txt

This ant script:

<copy todir="C:/dir1">
    <zipfileset dir="C:/dir2" prefix="dirprefix2"/>
    <zipfileset dir="C:/dir3" prefix="dirprefix3"/>
</copy>

copies the files to:

C:/dir1/file2.txt
C:/dir1/file3.txt

But I wanted it to copy to:

C:/dir1/dirprefix2/file2.txt
C:/dir1/dirprefix3/file3.txt

Anyone knows what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

The attribute prefix is used only when creating archives.

The following should work fine:

<copy todir="C:/dir1/dirprefix">
    <zipfileset dir="C:/dir2"/>
</copy>

Alternatively, you can use macros:

<macrodef name="mycp">
  <attribute name="dir"/>
  <attribute name="todir" default="C:/dir1"/>
  <attribute name="prefix"/>
  <sequential>
    <copy todir="@{todir}/@{prefix}">
        <fileset dir="@{dir}/"/>
    </copy>
  </sequential>
</macrodef>

then you will have one line per directory, like this:

<mycp dir="C:/dir2" prefix="dirprefix2"/>
<mycp dir="C:/dir3" prefix="dirprefix3"/>
...