{"id":7900,"date":"2012-09-21T19:43:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T14:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/?p=7900"},"modified":"2016-11-29T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T11:14:36","slug":"copy-filesfolders-from-one-location-to-another-in-groovy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/copy-filesfolders-from-one-location-to-another-in-groovy\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy Files\/Folders from one location to another in Groovy"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is normally difficult to copy file\/folders from one location to another. In my recent Grails Development<\/a>\u00a0project, i successfully achieved this. I had to copy files\/folders from one location to another on file system. I searched about it and came across a cool method to copy files or directories from one location to another.<\/p>\n

We can simply copy files, directories, exclude particular files as we have good control in it. Below is the code which explains how to use it.<\/p>\n

Copy directory to another directory :-<\/strong><\/p>\n

[java]<\/p>\n

String sourceDir = SOURCE_DIR_PATH
\n String destinationDir = DESTINATION_DIR_PATH
\n new AntBuilder().copy(todir: destinationDir) {
\n fileset(dir: sourceDir)
\n }<\/p>\n

[\/java]<\/p>\n

This method will copy the source directory to the destination directory with all the internal data in the same structure.<\/p>\n

Suppose if we want to exclude some particular file(s), then we can easily provide that file name or the common pattern of those files as mentioned in the example.<\/p>\n

Copy directory with excluding some files :-<\/strong><\/p>\n

[java]
\n String sourceDir = SOURCE_DIR_PATH
\n String destinationDir = DESTINATION_DIR_PATH<\/p>\n

new AntBuilder().copy(todir: destinationDir) {
\n fileset(dir : sourceDir) {
\n exclude(name:"*.java")
\n }
\n }<\/p>\n

[\/java]<\/p>\n

The above code will not copy the files which have an extension .java<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now if i want to copy any particular file, then there is other method to copy it as given below.<\/p>\n

Copy files from one directory to another :-<\/strong><\/p>\n

[java]<\/p>\n

String sourceFilePath = SOURCE_FILE_PATH
\n String destinationFilePath = DESTINATION_FILE_PATH
\n (new AntBuilder()).copy(file: sourceFilePath, tofile: destinationFilePath)<\/p>\n

[\/java]<\/p>\n

This method will copy the provided file to the destination location.<\/p>\n

This worked for me. Hope it helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is normally difficult to copy file\/folders from one location to another. In my recent Grails Development\u00a0project, i successfully achieved this. I had to copy files\/folders from one location to another on file system. I searched about it and came across a cool method to copy files or directories from one location to another. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":326,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3917,1994],"tags":[4840,9],"class_list":["post-7900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grails","category-product-engineering-2","category-software-development","tag-grails","tag-groovy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t