Re: Recursive Text Replacement in Files with no Extension

[Robert Clark]

On Monday May 8, 2006 16:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to use a "replace" task to recursively replace
> a string in a set of files, but it only seems to work if
> the file names have an extension (e.g. **/*.java).  In my
> case, I am trying to recursively edit the set of files
> named "Root" that exist with the CVS subdirectories of
> project checked out from CVS.

I think you are running into the default excludes in all directory 
based Ant tasks:

<http://ant.apache.org/manual/dirtasks.html#defaultexcludes>

> The task I'm trying looks like this:
>
> <replace
>     summary="yes"
>     dir="./"
>     token="foo"
>     value="bar"
>     includes="**/Root"/>

Try:

 <replace
     summary="yes"
     dir="./"
     token="foo"
     value="bar"
     defaultexcludes="no"
     includes="**/Root"/>

- Rob

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