John,
You can use NAnt's filterchain for this purpose.
For an example, see Example III:
http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/copy.html
You probably would better use the <expandproperties> filter instead of
<replacetokens>.
For example:
<copy todir="../backup/dir">
<fileset basedir="src_dir">
<include name="**/*" />
</fileset>
<filterchain>
<expandproperties />
</filterchain>
</copy>
Your input file would have to contain tokens in this form:
${property name}
eg. ${product.version}
Note:
For now, there's no support for in-place replacing of tokens. You have to
use tasks like <copy> or <move>.
Hope this helps,
Gert
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Stotler
Sent: dinsdag 16 oktober 2007 18:43
To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [NAnt-users] a search and replace question
We have an in-house python script that we've been using for our token
replacement, but I'm looking at moving us entirely over to nant.
What our script does is load a token/properties file, and then search
through a file or folder replacing any instances it finds of each token.
It looks like in nant I'm going to have to specify each token to be replaced
in the .build file.
Am I wrong about this? Is there a way to do an automated replace like our
current script does?
Thanks,
John
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