In Ant, copy all the files from the folder tree to one folder?

Question

Can I use Ant to copy all files (not folders) from a folder hierarchy to a single destination folder?

For example, I have a tree like this:

res |-images | |-fg.png | +-bg.png +-sounds +-music.mp3 

And I would like to get this result:

 data |-fg.png |-bg.png +-music.mp3 

As the names are called, file name conflicts are not a problem.

Can this be done with Ant?

Answer 1

To accomplish this, you can use the flatten attribute of the flatten task. You can read more at http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/copy.html .