Use the 'available' task to check if a file exists. There is also an 'if' task which is part of antcontrib that you can use to execute tasks conditionally
--- On Thu, 7/29/10, eric.w...@thomsonreuters.com <eric.w...@thomsonreuters.com> wrote: From: eric.w...@thomsonreuters.com <eric.w...@thomsonreuters.com> Subject: Ant: want to copy a file if it exists To: user@ant.apache.org Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 2:08 PM I want to check to see if a file exist and if so then copy it. What is the best way for performing this conditional task? Thanks, eric