Thanks Darragh. I learned three separate principles in getting this to
work with yours and Stefan's help.
With a few adjustments, I got it to work correctly. The following code
copied the one file (prefs.js) to the randomly generated folder
location: (I've added some comments for anyone who follows this thread
later.)
<property name="firefox.dir"
value="${env.APPDATA}/Mozilla/FireFox/Profiles"/>
<path id="path.firefox.default.profile"> <!--Where firefox puts the
profiles. I had not been using the path task. -->
<dirset dir="${firefox.dir}">
<include name="**/*.default" />
</dirset>
</path>
<!-- This line was the all important missing get the location (path id)
into an actual property. I had not done that. -->
<property name="firefox.default.profile.dir"
location="${toString:path.firefox.default.profile}" />
<!--The rest is pretty straight forward -->
<copy todir="${firefox.default.profile.dir}" >
<fileset dir="${apps.dir}/Firefox" >
<include name="prefs.js" />
</fileset>
</copy>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bailey, Darragh [mailto:dbai...@hp.com]
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 10:04 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: RE: Trouble with <copy> and <DirSet>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Mackley [mailto:aaron.mack...@dtint.com]
> Sent: 10 September 2010 15:40
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Trouble with <copy> and <DirSet>
>
> Stefan,
<snip>
> I currently have this code: (I am trying to copy prefs.js to
> the random
> directory *.default.)
>
> <copy todir="${firefox.dir}">
> <dirset dir="${firefox.dir}">
> <include name="**/*.default"/>
> </dirset>
> <fileset dir="${apps.dir}/Firefox">
> <include name="prefs.js"/>
> </fileset>
> </copy>
>
>
>
> Is this the right way to go about this?
That would attempt to copy the xxxxxxxxx.default directory to the
firefox directory.
There was a thread a week ago titled "How to get the last folder name?"
which should solve this problem for you.
> I want to get the path to the last child folder in some parent
> directory. Tried this:
>
> <path id="_lastname">
> <last>
> <sort>
> <fileset dir="C:\my\parent"/>
> </sort>
> </last>
> </path>
> <property name="_lastname2" location="${_lastname}"/>
The person had one mistake that was corrected by Matt Benson, he should
have used "${toString:_lastname}" in order to convert to a property.
So your code would become something like the following:
<path id="path.firefox.default.profile">
<dirset dir="${firefox.dir}">
<!--
I'm assumming that to avoid getting a directory below
the profile directory, that sort will return the results
in the order of the shortest path.
-->
<first>
<sort>
<include name="**/*.default" />
</sort>
</first>
</dirset>
</path>
<property name="firefox.default.profile.dir"
location="${toString:path.firefox.default.profile}" />
<copy todir="${firefox.default.profile.dir}" >
<fileset dir="${apps.dir}/Firefox" >
<include name="prefs.js" />
</fileset>
</copy>
This is untested and just constructed based on the person saying that it
worked after making the changes suggested.
--
Regards,
Darragh Bailey
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