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What do two stars mean in an Ant fileset tag?

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<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="**/*.jar"/>

what does two stars mean?

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user496949 Avatar asked Feb 25 '11 06:02

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AFAIK - ( I've used NAnt a few years ago ) - it means include all jar file in ${lib.dir} and subdirectories.

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Sascha Avatar answered Sep 17 '22 13:09

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