Hello Steve, this should be in DZONE snippets.
Steve Loughran wrote ..
> 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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> Author: Ant in Action http://antbook.org/
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