@@ -13,17 +13,17 @@
<h3>Description</h3> <h3>Description</h3>
<p> <p>
Concatenates a file, or a series of files, to a single file or
the console. The destination file will be created if it does
not exist.
Concatenates one or more
<a href="../CoreTypes/resources.html">resource</a>s
to a single file or to the console. The destination
file will be created if it does not exist.
</p> </p>
<p> <p>
<a href="../using.html#path">Path</a>s and/or
<a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s and/or <a
href="../CoreTypes/filelist.html">FileList</a>s are used to
select which files are to be concatenated. There is no
singular 'file' attribute to specify a single file to cat.
<a href="../CoreTypes/resources.html#collection">
Resource Collection</a>s are used to
select which resources are to be concatenated. There is no
singular attribute to specify a single resource to cat.
</p> </p>
<h3>Parameters</h3> <h3>Parameters</h3>
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
<tr> <tr>
<td valign="top">binary</td> <td valign="top">binary</td>
<td valign="top"> <td valign="top">
<em>since a nt 1.6.2</em>
<em>since A nt 1.6.2</em>
If this attribute is set to true, the task concatenates the files If this attribute is set to true, the task concatenates the files
in a byte by byte fashion. If this attribute is false, concat will in a byte by byte fashion. If this attribute is false, concat will
not normally work for binary files due to character encoding not normally work for binary files due to character encoding
@@ -144,33 +144,15 @@
</table> </table>
<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3> <h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
<h4>path </h4>
<p><em>since Ant 1.6 </em>.</p>
<h4>Resource Collection </h4>
<p><em>since Ant 1.7 </em>.</p>
<p> <p>
This is a <a href="../using.html#path">Path</a>. This is
used to select file files to be concatenated. Note that
a file can only appear once in a path. If this is
an issue consider using multiple paths.
Any of the various <a href="../CoreTypes/resources.html#collection">
Resource Collection</a> types can specify the resources to be
concatenated.
</p> </p>
<h4>fileset</h4>
<p>
<a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s are used to
select files to be concatenated. Note that the order in which
the files selected from a fileset are concatenated is
<i>not</i> guaranteed. If this is an issue, use multiple
filesets or consider using filelists.
</p>
<h4>filelist</h4>
<p>
<a href="../CoreTypes/filelist.html">FileList</a>s are used to
select files to be concatenated. The file ordering in the
<var>files</var> attribute will be the same order in which the
files are concatenated.
</p>
<h4>filterchain</h4> <h4>filterchain</h4>
<p><em>since Ant 1.6</em>.</p> <p><em>since Ant 1.6</em>.</p>
<p>The concat task supports nested <p>The concat task supports nested
Matthew Jason Benson