Re: Ant question (Richard Hammer)

Use the ant-contrib task "for"
See http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/for.html
http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/
http://www.nabble.com/Loop-over-a-set-of-files-t2413316.html

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> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:28:17 -0400
> From: "Richard Hammer" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Juglist] Ant question
> To: "juglist" <[email protected]>
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> In Ant, how do I loop over a FileSet? performing the same set of tasks 
> on each file in the FileSet?
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> Background:
> I have a directory full of jars which need to be signed with our 
> certificate for use with Java Web Start.  But some of these jars are 
> already signed, and in my experience you can't sign a jar twice, not if 
> you want it to work thereafter, so first I have to unsign any jars which 
> have already been signed.
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> This unsigning can be accomplished by removing everything in the 
> meta-inf directory of the jar, and I can accomplish this on one jar 
> (named subject.jar) as follows:
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>   <target name="removeSignature">
>    <delete dir="work" />
>    <unjar src="subject.jar" dest="work" />
>    <delete dir="work/meta-inf" />
>    <jar destfile="subject.jar" basedir="work" />
>   </target>
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> But I would like to be able to perform those steps on each jar in
>    <fileset id="libJarsList" dir="lib" includes="*.jar" />
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> Any suggestions?
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> Thank you,
> Rich Hammer
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