I'm guessing:
<copy todir="build" >
<fileset dir="firstcomponent" >
<include name="webdocs/**/*.jsp" >
</fileset>
<fileset dir="secondcomponent" >
<include name="webdocs/**/*.jsp" >
</fileset>
</copy>
If you wanted to generalize the number of components, I'm not sure how.
K.C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob van Oostrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 9:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: regular expression stuff
>
>
> > I have a situation where I run an ant copy instruction on a
> directory tree that
> > (from the context dir of the ant copy instruction) looks
> something like this:
> >
> > firstcomponent/webdocs/one/*.jsp
> > firstcomponent/webdocs/two/*.jsp
> > firstcomponent/webdocs/three/misc/*.jsp
> > secondcomponent/webdocs/one/*.jsp
> > secondcomponent/webdocs/two/*.jsp
> > secondcomponent/webdocs/three/*.jsp
> >
> > My build directory structure would then contain one
> directory called webdocs, and I
> > would want to copy all contents of all webdocs directories
> above to this one webdocs
> > directory, while preserving the *partial* directory structure:
> >
> > build/webdocs/one/*.jsp
> > build/webdocs/two/*.jsp
> > build/webdocs/three/*.jsp
> > build/webdocs/three/misc/*.jsp
> >
> > how would the ant copy instruction for this look like? I've
> fiddled around with the
> > regular expressions stuff and can't seem to get it to work
> right. I really want to
> > do this with one generic instruction, to avoid maintenance
> on the build.xml file
> > every time I add/remove components to a project.
> >
> > thanks for the help,
> >
> > Rob
>
