FileLists offer a way to represent a specific list of files. Unlike FileSets, FileLists may contain files that do not exist on the filesystem. Also, FileLists can represent files in a specific order -- whereas FileSets represent files in whichever order they are returned by the filesystem.
Table D.2: Attributes for the <filelist> tag
| Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
dir | String | The directory, to which the paths given in files
or listfile are relative. | n/a | Yes |
files | String | Comma or space-separated list of files. | n/a | Yes (or listfile)
|
listfile | String | A text file with one filename per line. | n/a | Yes (or files)
|
<filelist dir="/etc" files="httpd/conf/httpd.conf,php.ini"/>
Or you can use a listfile, which is expected to contain one
filename per line:
<filelist dir="conf/" listfile="ini_files.txt"/>
This will grab each file as listed in ini_files.txt. This can
be useful if one task compiles a list of files to process and another task needs to
read in that list and perform some action to those files.