Thanks a million! I'll play with the file attribute, don't know how I missed that! Thanks, Alan.
-----Original Message----- From: Diane Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 November 2001 17:06 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Is there a way to search a directory structure? --- Alan Pearlman Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can this type of thing work for searching a dir tree? > I cant get it to work? > I'm trying to search for a file anywhere in a dir tree and set a > property if that is there. > Like the available task, but I can't see how to get it to search a > complete tree. > > I've tried: > <available resource="my.file.txt" type="file" property="found"> The "resource" attribute is used when you're looking for something in a jar-file. The "type" attribute is only valid when you've specified a file, via the "file" attribute, as what you're looking for (and should check for that and print an error -- my bad, so I'll fix that :) > <classpath> > <fileset dir="${search.root}"> > <include name="**"/> > <exclude name="**/*.*"/> > </fileset> > </classpath> The nested <classpath> is used when you've specified you're looking for either a class or a resource, not when you're looking for a file (or directory). The documentation says you can use a nested <filepath> element when you're looking for a file (or directory), but I can't get that to work, so either I'm not doing it right, or there's a bug in how it's doing it (I'm leaning towards that :) For example, I tried: <target name="findFile"> <available property="found" file="A.java"> <filepath> <fileset dir="."> <include name="**"/> </fileset> </filepath> </available> <echo message="found = ${found}"/> </target> Running this target with -verbose shows it recursively searching through all the subdirs, so that's good -- but it looks like it's made the filename it's looking for the full-path name, based on the basedir, so even though the file exists several subdirectories down from basedir, it's not going to match. Even more unfortunately, though, I tried just 'touch'ing an A.java in the local directory, and it didn't find it there, either :( Looks like some debugging is in order. Diane ===== ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
