Okay thanks. I've seen some references to <foreach> on this list and I
think that may just be what I need. For my uses, I will not need to
unzip any zip files that may be within the zip files I use, to I won't
run into the recursion problem.
Thanks again,
-shawn
Matt Benson wrote:
> Seems like it would be easy using...
>
> can anyone guess what I am going to say?
>
> <foreach>!!! yay!!!
>
> The only difficulty is that unzipping these archives
> might yield more directories with archives to be
> unzipped, so that the dirset on which you would want
> to operate might be dynamic. In that case I would use
> recursive <foreach> tasks; however you might run into
> memory problems with this approach. If this happens I
> would next suggest trying the modified <foreach> task
> provided (I believe) by Geoff Meakin. You can find
> references to it by searching this list.
>
> -Matt
>
> --- Shawn Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Hi, I didn't get any replies on this. Does nobody
>>have a solution?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-shawn
>>
>>Shawn Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>I have struggled with this problem for a while now
>>
>>and I believe that it
>>
>>>is just not possible, but maybe someone on this
>>
>>list has a different idea.
>>
>>>Basically, what I'd like to do is recurse into a
>>
>>directory tree which
>>
>>>contains some ZIP files, and for each ZIP file
>>
>>expand it out into the
>>
>>>directory it is found in. Using the <unzip> task I
>>
>>can successfully
>>
>>>extract all the ZIP files, but I can't seem to
>>
>>find a way to make the
>>
>>>destination dynamic too. This extracts them into a
>>
>>single root directory:
>>
>>> <unzip dest="${build.dir}">
>>> <fileset dir="${build.dir}"
>>
>>includes="**/sample.*.zip"/>
>>
>>> </unzip>
>>>
>>>What frustrates me most about Ant is that you have
>>
>>all these
>>
>>>file-related tasks that can work with filesets
>>
>>(copy, unzip, jar, etc.),
>>
>>>but there appears to be now generic file-related
>>
>>task. That is, I could
>>
>>>save myself lots of work if there was simply a
>>
>>task that "for this
>>
>>>fileset, do X, Y, and Z" where X, Y, and Z are
>>
>>some other Ant tasks.
>>
>>>Is it even possible to code such a task for Ant or
>>
>>does Ant's
>>
>>>architecture prevent this?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>-shawn
>>>
>>
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