Question

Using Ant, how can I list sub folders only from the first level, and not going down the directory tree?

say I have:

dir1
-- dir21
----dir211
-- dir22

<dirset dir="dir1"/>

will list all dirs including dir211.
How can I avoid that?

Answer 1

Use dirset like that :

<dirset dir="dir" includes="*"/>

or

<dirset dir="dir1">
 <include name="*"/>
</dirset>

EDIT after comment

includes attribute and nested include name should be equivalent, here’s some
snippet working on my windows machine, given C:\foo\bar :

<project>
 <echo>
    ${ant.version}
    ${java.version}
    ${os.name}
 </echo>
 <dirset dir="c:/foo" includes="*" id="foobar" />

 <echo>${toString:foobar}</echo>


 <dirset dir="c:/foo" id="foobaz">
  <include name="*" />
 </dirset>

 <echo>${toString:foobaz}</echo>
</project>

output :

Buildfile: C:\rosebud\AntTest\tryme.xml
     [echo]     Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.2 compiled on December 20 2010
     [echo]     1.7.0_02
     [echo]     Windows 7
     [echo]  
     [echo] bar
     [echo] bar
BUILD SUCCESSFUL