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<h2><a name="move">Move</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Moves a file to a new file or directory, or sets of files to
a new directory.  By default, the
destination file is overwritten if it already exists.  When <var>overwrite</var> is
turned off, then files are only moved if the source file is newer than
the destination file, or when the destination file does not exist.</p>
<p><a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s are used to select sets of files
to move to the <var>todir</var> directory.</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">file</td>
    <td valign="top">the file to move</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">One of <var>file</var> or
     at least one nested fileset element</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">preservelastmodified</td>
    <td valign="top">Give the moved files the same last modified
      time as the original source files.
      (<em>Note</em>: Ignored on Java 1.1)</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to false.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">tofile</td>
    <td valign="top">the file to move to</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center" rowspan="2">With the <var>file</var> attribute,
    either <var>tofile</var> or <var>todir</var> can be used.  With nested filesets,
    if the fileset size is greater than 1 or if the only entry in the fileset is a
    directory or if the <var>file</var> attribute is already specified, only
    <var>todir</var> is allowed</td>
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    <td valign="top">todir</td>
    <td valign="top">the directory to move to</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">overwrite</td>
    <td valign="top">overwrite existing files even if the destination
      files are newer (default is &quot;true&quot;)</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">filtering</td>
    <td valign="top">indicates whether token filtering should take place during
      the move.  See the <a href="filter.html">filter</a> task for a description of
      how filters work.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">flatten</td>
    <td valign="top">ignore directory structure of source directory,
      copy all files into a single directory, specified by the <var>todir</var>
      attribute (default is &quot;false&quot;).Note that you can achieve the
      same effect by using a <a href="../CoreTypes/mapper.html#flatten-mapper">flatten mapper</a></td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">includeEmptyDirs</td>
	 <td valign="top">Copy empty directories included with the nested FileSet(s).
	   Defaults to &quot;yes&quot;.</td>
	 <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">failonerror</td>
     <td valign="top">Log a warning message, but do not stop the build,
       when the file to move does not exist.
       Only meaningful when moving a single file.
     </td>
     <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to true.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">verbose</td>
     <td valign="top">Log the files that are being moved.</td>
     <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to false.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">encoding</td>
    <td valign="top">The encoding to assume when filter-copying the
    files. <em>since Ant 1.5</em>.</td>
    <td align="center">No - defaults to default JVM encoding</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">outputencoding</td>
    <td valign="top">The encoding to use when writing the files.
    <em>since Ant 1.6</em>.</td>
    <td align="center">No - defaults to the value of the encoding
    attribute if given or the default JVM encoding otherwise.</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
<h4>mapper</h4>
<p>You can define file name transformations by using a nested <a
href="../CoreTypes/mapper.html">mapper</a> element. The default mapper used by
<code>&lt;copy&gt;</code> is the <a
href="../CoreTypes/mapper.html#identity-mapper">identity</a>.</p>
<h4>filterchain</h4>
<p>The Move task supports nested <a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html">
FilterChain</a>s.</p>

<p>
If &lt;filterset&gt; and &lt;filterchain&gt; elements are used inside the
same &lt;move&gt; task, all &lt;filterchain&gt; elements are processed first
followed by &lt;filterset&gt; elements.
</p>

<h3>Examples</h3>
<p><b>Move a single file (rename a file)</b></p>
<pre>
  &lt;move file=&quot;file.orig&quot; tofile=&quot;file.moved&quot;/&gt;
</pre>
<p><b>Move a single file to a directory</b></p>
<pre>
  &lt;move file=&quot;file.orig&quot; todir=&quot;dir/to/move/to&quot;/&gt;
</pre>
<p><b>Move a directory to a new directory</b></p>
<pre>
  &lt;move todir=&quot;new/dir/to/move/to&quot;&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir=&quot;src/dir&quot;/&gt;
  &lt;/move&gt;
</pre>
<p><b>Move a set of files to a new directory</b></p>
<pre>
  &lt;move todir=&quot;some/new/dir&quot;&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir=&quot;my/src/dir&quot;&gt;
      &lt;include name=&quot;**/*.jar&quot;/&gt;
      &lt;exclude name=&quot;**/ant.jar&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;/move&gt;
</pre>
<p><b>Append <code>&quot;.bak&quot;</code> to the names of all files
in a directory.</b></p>
<pre>
  &lt;move todir=&quot;my/src/dir&quot;&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir=&quot;my/src/dir&quot;&gt;
      &lt;exclude name=&quot;**/*.bak&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/fileset&gt;
    &lt;mapper type=&quot;glob&quot; from=&quot;*&quot; to=&quot;*.bak&quot;/&gt;
  &lt;/move&gt;
</pre>
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