diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/antlib/file/CopyTask.java b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/antlib/file/CopyTask.java
index b3c1628ea..623cd07ec 100644
--- a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/antlib/file/CopyTask.java
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/antlib/file/CopyTask.java
@@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ public class CopyTask
         m_mapper = mapper;
     }
 
+    protected final boolean isPreserveLastModified()
+    {
+        return m_preserveLastModified;
+    }
+
     public void execute()
         throws TaskException
     {
@@ -417,7 +422,7 @@ public class CopyTask
      * Utility method to perform operation to transform a single source file
      * to a destination.
      */
-    private void doOperation( final String sourceFilename,
+    protected void doOperation( final String sourceFilename,
                               final String destinationFilename )
         throws IOException
     {
diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/antlib/file/MoveTask.java b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/antlib/file/MoveTask.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..08fcfb748
--- /dev/null
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/antlib/file/MoveTask.java
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This software is published under the terms of the Apache Software License
+ * version 1.1, a copy of which has been included  with this distribution in
+ * the LICENSE.txt file.
+ */
+package org.apache.antlib.file;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import org.apache.avalon.excalibur.io.FileUtil;
+
+/**
+ * A task used to move files.
+ *
+ * @ant:task name="move"
+ * @author <a href="mailto:peter@apache.org">Peter Donald</a>
+ * @version $Revision$ $Date$
+ */
+public class MoveTask
+    extends CopyTask
+{
+    /**
+     * Utility method to perform operation to transform a single source file
+     * to a destination.
+     */
+    protected void doOperation( final String sourceFilename,
+                                final String destinationFilename )
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        final File source = new File( sourceFilename );
+        final File destination = new File( destinationFilename );
+
+        if( destination.exists() )
+        {
+            FileUtil.forceDelete( destination );
+        }
+        FileUtil.copyFile( source, destination );
+
+        if( isPreserveLastModified() )
+        {
+            destination.setLastModified( source.lastModified() );
+        }
+
+        FileUtil.forceDelete( source );
+    }
+}