Hello,
Since it seems you only need to determine if the executable bit needs to
be preserved, maybe you could write a Perl script that given a source
directory, a list of files in that directory and a target directory will
find all the executable files and chmod the corresponding target file.
You could then call that script from <apply> after your <copy> where
preserving execute permissions is required.
Another option is to write a <cp> task that supports some subset of the
<copy> task but runs the cp command to perform the copies.
-Bill
Alexey Solofnenko wrote:
> I do not know about you, but I need to be able to copy executable files
> regardless how difficult it can be to implement. It is a basic
> functionality. Sometimes I wonder if people really use some products.
>
> - Alexey.
>
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> { http://trelony.cjb.net/ } Alexey N. Solofnenko
> Pleasant Hill, CA (GMT-8 usually)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Loughran [mailto:steve_l@iseran.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:31 AM
> To: Ant Developers List
> Subject: Re: Any chance to have <copy> to preserve file permissions?
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Wood" <kwood@i2.com>
> To: "Ant Developers List" <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 7:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Any chance to have <copy> to preserve file permissions?
>
>
>
>>Yes, everyone wishes ant could copy files on unix and
>>preserve permissions. But, java doesn't recognize those
>>permissions, so the copy cannot preserve them - it can't
>>preserve something it does not see.
>>
>>You can use 'exec' to run 'cp' and preserve permissions...
>>
>>Alexey Solofnenko wrote:
>>
>>>Fair enough. But don't you think it might be really important to be able
>>
> to
>
>>>copy executable files on Unix?
>>>
>>>- Alexey.
>>
>
> At some point in the future, ant is bound add ant-native tasks where we do
> our own JNI wrappers to do things not possible before: symlink work, getting
> at permissions, maybe some more. But it would a dog to try and port, build,
> test all that stuff for all the platforms ant supports, which is why I am
> not in a rush to do it.
>
> -steve
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