Hi all, Thanks for the resposnes. Martin, that's an elegant example and belongs in the ant documentation.
As a follow up to Martin's example: once you have the list of 'result" files (which lists all the .md5 files which differ), how in ant can you generate a list of the *original* files. i.e. so you can send a message telling the user that he changed 'src/jsp/foo.jsp' and not just that 'checksums/jsp/foo.jsp.md5' doesn't match 'newchecksums/jsp/foo.jsp.md5' Or better yet, so that your ant target can "act on those changes", i.e. and backup src/jsp/foo.jsp before overwriting it.... This may simply be an exercise in string manipulation with Ant or "advanced use of filesets", thanks, bill
