Copy entire directory in Gradle

Question

I have a directory structure like this:

file1.txt file2.txt dir1/     file3.txt     file4.txt 

I want to use Gradle to copy that entire structure into another directory. I tried this:

task mytest << {     copy {         from "file1.txt"         from "file2.txt"         from "dir1"          into "mytest"     } } 

But this results in the following:

mytest/     file1.txt     file2.txt     file3.txt     file4.txt 

See, the copy from dir1 copied the files in dir1, whereas I want to copy dir1 itself.

Is it possible to do this directly with Gradle copy?

So far, I have only been able to come up with this solution:

task mytest << {     copy {         from "file1.txt"         from "file2.txt"          into "mytest"     }      copy {         from "dir1"         into "mytest/dir1"     } } 

For my simple example there's not much to it, but in my actual case there are many directories I want to copy, and I'd like to not have to repeat so much.

Answer 1

You can use . as the directory path and include to specify, which files and directories you want to copy:

copy {     from '.'     into 'mytest'     include 'file*.txt'     include 'dir1/**' } 

If both from and into are directories, you'll end up with the full copy of the source directory in the destination directory.