Basic Ant excludes question

[Joe Gliniecki]

I'm trying to copy some files from one directory to another with the exception of a sub-directory. I'm running ant in Eclipse and created a simple project to reproduce my problem.

Directories and files in Eclipse project:
build.xml
dir1/a.txt
dir1/dir2/b.txt
dir3/

I want to copy a.txt to dir3, but do not want to copy b.txt at all.

This is my build.xml:

<project default="dist-files">
  <target name="dist-files" >
	<copy todir="dir3">
	  <fileset dir="dir1">
	    <exclude name="dir1/dir2/**" />
	  </fileset>
	</copy>
  </target>
</project>   
 

Running the build.xml results in this file structure:
dir3/a.txt
dir3/dir2/b.txt

I know I must be missing something very basic. To me, the <exclude name="dir1/dir2/**" /> should prevent anything in dir1/dir2/ from being copied.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

It should be:

<exclude name="dir2/**" />

The exclude is relative to the fileset.