diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/antlib/file/FilteredCopyTask.java b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/antlib/file/FilteredCopyTask.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b796f17f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/proposal/myrmidon/src/java/org/apache/antlib/file/FilteredCopyTask.java
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+/*
+ * 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.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.BufferedWriter;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.io.Writer;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import org.apache.avalon.excalibur.io.IOUtil;
+import org.apache.myrmidon.api.TaskException;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FilterSet;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FilterSetCollection;
+
+/**
+ * A task used to copy files and simultaneously apply a
+ * filter on said files.
+ *
+ * @ant:task name="filtered-copy"
+ * @author <a href="mailto:peter@apache.org">Peter Donald</a>
+ * @version $Revision$ $Date$
+ */
+public class FilteredCopyTask
+    extends CopyTask
+{
+    private ArrayList m_filterSets = new ArrayList();
+    private FilterSetCollection m_filterSetCollection;
+    private String m_encoding = "US-ASCII";
+
+    public void addFilterSet( final FilterSet filterSet )
+    {
+        m_filterSets.add( filterSet );
+    }
+
+    public void setEncoding( final String encoding )
+    {
+        m_encoding = encoding;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * 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 );
+
+        InputStream inputStream = null;
+        OutputStream outputStream = null;
+        BufferedReader input = null;
+        BufferedWriter output = null;
+        try
+        {
+            inputStream = new FileInputStream( source );
+            outputStream = new FileOutputStream( destination );
+
+            final Reader fileReader = new InputStreamReader( inputStream, m_encoding );
+            final Writer fileWriter = new OutputStreamWriter( outputStream, m_encoding );
+            input = new BufferedReader( fileReader );
+            output = new BufferedWriter( fileWriter );
+
+            process( input, output );
+        }
+        catch( final UnsupportedEncodingException uee )
+        {
+            throw new IOException( uee.toString() );
+        }
+        finally
+        {
+            IOUtil.shutdownReader( input );
+            IOUtil.shutdownStream( inputStream );
+            IOUtil.shutdownWriter( output );
+            IOUtil.shutdownStream( outputStream );
+        }
+
+        if( isPreserveLastModified() )
+        {
+            destination.setLastModified( source.lastModified() );
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void process( final BufferedReader input,
+                          final BufferedWriter output )
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        String newline = null;
+        String line = input.readLine();
+        while( null != line )
+        {
+            if( line.length() == 0 )
+            {
+                output.newLine();
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                newline = replaceTokens( line );
+                output.write( newline );
+                output.newLine();
+            }
+            line = input.readLine();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private String replaceTokens( final String line )
+        throws IOException
+    {
+        final FilterSetCollection filters = buildFilterSetCollection();
+        try
+        {
+            return filters.replaceTokens( line );
+        }
+        catch( final TaskException te )
+        {
+            throw new IOException( te.getMessage() );
+        }
+    }
+
+    private FilterSetCollection buildFilterSetCollection()
+    {
+        if( null == m_filterSetCollection )
+        {
+            m_filterSetCollection = new FilterSetCollection();
+
+            final int size = m_filterSets.size();
+            for( int i = 0; i < size; i++ )
+            {
+                final FilterSet filterSet = (FilterSet)m_filterSets.get( i );
+                setupLogger( filterSet );
+                m_filterSetCollection.addFilterSet( filterSet );
+            }
+        }
+
+        return m_filterSetCollection;
+    }
+}