Attrib

Since Ant 1.6.

Description

Changes the attributes of a file or all files inside specified directories. Right now it has effect only under Windows. Each of the 4 possible permissions has its own attribute, matching the arguments for the attrib command.

FileSets, DirSets or FileLists can be specified using nested <fileset>, <dirset> and <filelist> elements.

By default this task will use a single invocation of the underlying attrib command. If you are working on a large number of files this may result in a command line that is too long for your operating system. If you encounter such problems, you should set the maxparallel attribute of this task to a non-zero value. The number to use highly depends on the length of your file names (the depth of your directory tree), so you'll have to experiment a little.

Parameters

Examples

<attrib file="${dist}/run.bat" readonly="true" hidden="true"/>

makes the "run.bat" file read-only and hidden.

<attrib readonly="false">
  <fileset dir="${meta.inf}" includes="**/*.xml"/>
<attrib>

makes all ".xml" files below ${meta.inf} readable.

<attrib readonly="true" archive="true">

  <fileset dir="shared/sources1">
    <exclude name="**/trial/**"/>
  </fileset>
  <fileset refid="other.shared.sources"/>

</attrib>

makes all files below shared/sources1 (except those below any directory named trial) read-only and archived. In addition all files belonging to a FileSet with id other.shared.sources get the same attributes.

Source: Apache Ant

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