Re: rename a folder

Looks like I have some researching to do...

Thanks,
Ryan

On Sep 28, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Bob Archer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, supposedly in ant if you do:
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> <move file=”c:/path/to/folder” tofile=”c:/path/to/newfolder” />
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> It will rename the folder.
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> Since Ant 1.6.3, the file attribute may be used to move (rename) an entire directory. If tofile denotes an existing file, or there is a directory by the same name in todir, the action will fail. 
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> I’m not clear if you are supposed to use tofile or todir… since I don’t have ant set up to try it.
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> BOb
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> From: Ryan Boggs [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:44 PM
> To: Bob Archer
> Cc: Khairuddin Abdullah; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NAnt-users] rename a folder
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> Ant does this, you say? Hmmm...
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> Thanks,
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> Ryan
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> On Sep 28, 2011, at 7:02 AM, Bob Archer <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Yes, I did see this option, but it seemed like a lot of work to rename a folder. That’s why I asked. I was too lazy to look at the move code to see why it wouldn’t rename a folder, since Ant (I know it’s N(ot)Ant) did.
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> From: Khairuddin Abdullah [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:51 PM
> To: Bob Archer
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NAnt-users] rename a folder
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> Bob:
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> Try the following on one or two folders as a test (make sure you create a back up, just in case). If you do not wish to purge old empty folders (with Company.* in name), you need to comment out the last delete line.  Good luck!
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>       <foreach item="Folder" property="folderpath">
>                                 <in>
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>                                           <include name="C:\Builds\TestRename\8.0.0.4\Company.*" />
>                                     </items>
>                                  </in>
>                                 <do>
>                                  <echo message="${folderpath}" />
>                                 <echo message="${string::replace(folderpath, 'Company.', '')}"/>
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>                                 <move todir="${string::replace(folderpath, 'Company.', '')}">
>                                      <fileset basedir="${folderpath}">
>                                          <include name="*.*" />
>                                      </fileset>
>                                 </move>
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>                                   <!-- commented out the following delete line if you do not want to purge old empty folders -->
>                                       <delete dir="${folderpath}" />
>                                 </do>
>              </foreach>
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> --- On Tue, 9/27/11, Bob Archer <[email protected]> wrote:
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> From: Bob Archer <[email protected]>
> Subject: [NAnt-users] rename a folder
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 5:49 PM
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> Seriously, this should be easy but it is not.
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> I want to rename folders.. but the move doesn’t seem to want to. Can move rename a folder. Any examples?
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> I am doing something like this:
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> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
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> <project name="TestRename" default="info">
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>                 <foreach item="Folder" property="folderpath">
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>                                                 <items basedir="C:\Builds\TestRename\8.0.0.4">
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>                                                                 <include name="Company.*" />
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>                                                 </items>
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>                                 </in>
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>                                                 <echo message="${folderpath}" />
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>                                                 <echo message="${string::replace(folderpath, 'Company.', '')}"/>
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>                                                 <move file="${folderpath}" todir="${string::replace(folderpath, 'Company.', '')}" verbose="true" />
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>                                 </do>
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>                 </foreach>
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> </project>
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> I’ve tried todir and tofile.  If I remark out the move the correct paths are displayed as messages.
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> BOb
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