Jun 23 2009
[Quick Tip] Printing out all matches in an Ant fileset
This is one of those things that’s so handy, I can’t believe it hasn’t been posted before. I found a 2006 post from JavaLobby, where R.J. Lorimer writes about how to print out a classpath.
Also useful, but the particular use case I ran into was – one of our build scripts uses a fileset to select incrementally more complex test suites to run. Developers can do a quick check locally with the “short tests” – however, since these are specified as a fileset, it’s hard to know exactly what will run. I wanted to create a simple ant task to take the fileset, and print out everything that matched.
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