Alx G wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if there's anything in Ant that can copy files from a
directory to another directory but change all the file names to lower case?
e.g.
working/some_folder/etc/Blah.jpg => dist/some_folder/etc/blah.jpg
...
etc. for a whole load of files in various directories.
Perhaps there's something I can add to this?
<copy todir="${dist.dir}/images">
<fileset dir="images"/>
</copy>
If there's nothing in Ant directly, I'm going to have to write a PHP script
that does the renaming but I'd prefer not to create more scripts.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Many Thanks!
The ant-approved way would be a <copy> with an appropriate mapper listed
as a nested element. This gives copy the mapping from input filenames to
output names, lets it do the copying and dependency management as
normal. You just provide the renaming logic .
I dont see one, but I do see in the manual the <scriptmapper> example,
which (ant1.7+ only) would let you do what you want in a few lines
<copy todir="${dist.dir}/images">
<fileset dir="images"/>
<scriptmapper language="javascript">
self.addMappedName(source.toLowerCase());
</scriptmapper>
</copy>
If you are running on java6, javascript is built in -no need for extra
JARs to get scripting working.
Case conversion does sound like a common use case...you could always
write the java mapper and provide it with tests as an ant enhancement
bugrep.
-steve
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