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Subject: Re: Renaming a directory when the source directory is not known
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ok. so you can do a move as u did, the only remaining pb beeing to dynamically get the name of the directory for your archive into a property.
how about the dirname task ?
seb.

"Halstead, Chris" wrote:

> Seb - Thanks again for all your help.  Your example works just fine, but the problem is that the source directory won't always be named 'foo'.  I need a way to do what the code snippet below does without having to know that the directory is named 'foo' beforehand.
>
> What I'm trying to accomplish is this: when I extract a ZIP archive to the output dir I end up with something like /output/archive-1.2.3.  I want to change it to be /output/archive without having to know that the original was named 'archive-1.2.3'.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -chris
>
> >
> > Chris,
> > I just did the following test:
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <project name="test move" default="main">
> >
> > <property name="output.dir" value="somedir" />
> > <property name="target" value="bar" />
> >
> > <target name="mv">
> >
> >   <move todir="${output.dir}/${target}">
> >     <fileset dir="${output.dir}/foo">
> >     </fileset>
> >   </move>
> > </target>
> >
> >  </project>
> >
> > and somedir/foo directory is moved to somedir/bar directory
> > just fine (having recursive content in foo at the beginning).
> > am I missing smthg ? if ur example it looks to me you move
> > somedir directory to somedir/bar directory which would be
> > somewhat a bit difficult. [also are u sure the ${target}
> > property is defined properly when your PREP target is called
> > ? if the pattern is erroneous then the mapper will not do anything.]
> >
> > FYI <mapper> cd then be embedded into the fileset to map the
> > new files to new directory or names but looking at your need
> > the above is enough.
> >
> > hope this will help, maybe add an echo "mv-ing ${your_from}
> > to ${your_to}" before the call to <move> to see what is happening.
> >
> > seb.
> >
>
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