Apache Ant Concat Task
Concatenation is used to concat one or more files to a single file. A new file will be created if it does not exist unless the resource list is empty and ignoreempty is true.
Since Apache Ant 1.7.1, this task can be used as a resource collection that will return exactly one resource.
Resource collections are used to select which resources are to be concatenated. There is no singular attribute to specify a single resource to concatenation file.
Apache Ant Concat Task Attributes
| Attribute |
Description |
Required |
| destfile |
The destination file for the concatenated stream. |
No |
| append |
It specifies whether or not the file specified by destfile should be appended. |
No |
| force |
It specifies whether or not the file specified by destfile should be written. |
No |
| overwrite |
It specifies whether or not the file specified by destfile should be written. |
No |
| forceReadOnly |
It overwrites read-only destination files. |
No |
| encoding |
It specifies the encoding for the input files. |
No |
| outputencoding |
The encoding to use when writing the output file. |
No |
| fixlastline |
It specifies whether or not to check if each file concatenated is terminated by a new line. |
No |
| eol |
It specifies what the end of line character are for use by the fixlastline attribute. |
No |
| binary |
If this attribute is set to true, the task concatenates the files in a byte by byte fashion. |
No |
| ignoreempty |
Specifies whether or not the file specified by destfile should be created if the source resource list is empty. |
No; defaults to true |
| resourcename |
Specifies the name reported if this task is exposed as a resource. |
No |
Apache Ant Concat Example
Concatenate a string to a file:
Concatenate a series of files to the console:
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