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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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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