A fileset collects only existing files. It fails only if the "dir" directory doesnt exist.
If the files "must" exist, you could
- use a <filelist>
- check the existence with <fail> and a condition, like
  <fail message="Required files missing">
    <length length="3">
      <fileset ...>


Jan

>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: blazingwolf7 [mailto:blazingwolf7@gmail.com] 
>Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2008 10:28
>An: user@ant.apache.org
>Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Copying Folder
>
>
>I gave up and decide just to used the copy to copy the files
>   	 <copy todir="${build.dir}">
>    		<fileset dir="${basedir}">
>					<include name="host.txt"/>
>					<include name="urls_re"/>
>					<include name="urls"/>
>    		</fileset>
>           </copy> 
>
>But here I faced another problem again...if one of the file is 
>missing..it
>won't come out error. Is there anywhere I can do to stop the 
>process if a
>file fail to be copy?
>
>
>
>Jan.Materne wrote:
>> 
>> You could <fileset dir="" includesfile=""/> or <filelist>.
>> 
>> Jan
>> 
>>>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>Von: blazingwolf7 [mailto:blazingwolf7@gmail.com] 
>>>Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2008 02:37
>>>An: user@ant.apache.org
>>>Betreff: RE: AW: Copying Folder
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes..thank you this is a good solution. But now I have a 
>>>different thought.
>>>Can I for example prepare a list, then in the list I will 
>>>specify what file
>>>I want to transfer from the root directory to the new folder.
>>>
>>>Then it will refer to the file to determine which file to copy 
>>>and which
>>>file not to transfer.
>>>Can that be done?
>>>
>>>Rebhan, Gilbert wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: blazingwolf7 [mailto:blazingwolf7@gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:12 AM
>>>> To: user@ant.apache.org
>>>> Subject: Re: AW: Copying Folder
>>>> 
>>>> /*
>>>> Not really...I just want to copy the files from the root directory
>>>> But the root directory will have folders as well. Now the 
>>>problem I faced
>>>> is
>>>> how to filter out all the folders so that it only copy the 
>>>files from the
>>>> root directory
>>>> */
>>>> 
>>>> after reading again, i believe you mean =
>>>> 
>>>> a given folderstructure like that =
>>>> 
>>>> c:\test>tree /F /A
>>>> 
>>>> C:.
>>>> |   foo.txt
>>>> |   foobar.txt
>>>> |   foobaz.txt
>>>> |
>>>> +---sub
>>>> |   \---subsub
>>>> |           sub.txt
>>>> |
>>>> \---sub1
>>>>     \---subsub
>>>>             sub1.txt
>>>> ...
>>>> 
>>>> and you want to copy only the files on rootlevel
>>>> foo.txt
>>>> foobar.txt
>>>> foobaz.txt
>>>> 
>>>> right ??
>>>> 
>>>> to achieve that, just use the *.* include pattern
>>>> to catch only the files on roolevel =
>>>> 
>>>> <project default="copy">
>>>>  <target name="copy">
>>>>   <copy todir="C:/flatten">
>>>>    <fileset dir="C:/test" includes="*.*" />
>>>>   </copy>
>>>> </target>
>>>> </project>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, Gilbert
>>>> 
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