Apache Ant Move Task

This task is used to move a file to new file or directory. It can also be used to move set of files to a new directory. By default destination files are overwritten if the files are already exists.

The file attribute is used to move a file or entire directory to a new destination directory.

Attribute	Description	Required
file	The file or directory to be moved.	Yes
preservelastmodified	Preserve the last moved file name	No
tofile	The destination file.	Yes
todir	The destination directory.	Yes
overwrite	It overwrites existing files even if the destination files are newer.	No
force	It overwrites read-only destination files.	No
filtering	It indicates whether token filtering should take place during the move.	No
flatten	It ignores directory structure of source directory.	No
includeEmptyDirs	It copies empty directories.	No
failonerror	If false, log a warning message.	No
quiet	It does not log a warning message when the file to copy does not exist.	No
verbose	Log the files that are being moved.	No
encoding	It is used to specify encoding format.	No
outputencoding	The encoding to use when writing the files.	No

Apache Ant Move Task Example

Moving file to new file.

<project name="java-ant project" default="run">	
	<target name="run">
		<move file="test2/xyz.txt" tofile="javatpoint/java/abc.txt"/>
	</target>
</project>

Moving a file to a directory.

<project name="java-ant project" default="run">	
	<target name="run">
		<move file="test2/abc.txt" todir="javatpoint/java/"/>
	</target>
</project>

Moving a directory to new directory.

<project name="java-ant project" default="run">	
	<target name="run">
		<move todir="javatpoint/java">
  			<fileset dir="test2/"/>
		</move>
	</target>
</project>

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