File Utils for IBM UrbanCode Build - Steps

Steps

Steps

Process steps in the File Utils plug-in

Copy Directory

Copy the contents of a directory to other directories. This step overwrites files but does not delete files.

Name Type Description Required
Destination Directories String A list of directories to copy to, separated by newline characters. Yes
Exclude Files String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the files to skip. For example, if you specify **/*.zip, all .zip files in all subdirectories are excluded. No
Include Files String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the files to copy. The default, **/*, includes all files. Yes
Rename Rules String A list of rules, separated by newline characters, for renaming the files in the destination directories. Use the format FROM->TO. For example, specify a.txt->b.txt to rename files named a.txt to b.txt and use *.java->*.java.bak to change file suffixes from .java to .java.bak. Rules are applied in the order that they are specified. No more than one rule is applied to a file. No
Source Directory String The directory to copy. Yes

Create .zip File

Create a .zip file.

Name Type Description Required
.zip File Name String Name of the new .zip file. Yes
Base Directory String The directory that contains the files to add to the archive. Yes
Case Sensitive Boolean Select to use case-sensitive matching. No
Exclude String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the files and directories to skip. For example: **/*.txt No
Follow Symlinks Boolean Select to follow symlinks when including files. No
Include String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the files and directories to include. For example: **/* Yes
Update existing Boolean Select to update or overwrite the destination file if a file with that name already exists. No

Create Directories

Create a set of new directories including parent directories.

Name Type Description Required
Directories String A list of directories to create, separated by newline characters. Yes

Create File

Create a file.

Name Type Description Required
Contents String The contents of the file. No
File Name String The name of the file. Yes
Overwrite if exists Boolean Select to overwrite an existing file with the same name. No

Delete Files and Directories

Delete files and directories.

Name Type Description Required
Base Directory String The base directory where files and directories are deleted. Yes
Case Sensitive Boolean Select to use case-sensitive matching. No
Exclude String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the files and directories to skip when deleting. For example, specify **/*.txt to skip all .txt files. No
Follow Symlinks Boolean Select to follow symlinks when deleting. No
Include String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the files and directories to delete. For example, specify **/* to delete all files. Yes

Flip Line Endings

Convert file line endings between UNIX and Microsoft Windows formats.

| Name | Type | Description | Required | | —- | —- | ——————————————————————————————————————– | ——– | | Ending | Enumeration:

Monitor File Contents

Monitor a file for a token. The step continues when the token is found, and fails if the token is not found in the specified time. This step is similar to the UNIX tail command, and ignores content in the file that is present before the step starts.

Name Type Description Required
Directory Offset String The directory relative to the current working directory that contains the file to monitor. No
Fail if found Boolean Select to configure the step to fail if the regular expression is matched. When selected, the step does not fail when the timeout expires. No
File Name String The name of the file to monitor. Yes
Regular Expression String A regular expression that describes the token to match in the file. Yes
Timeout (s) String The time, in seconds, to wait for a match to the regular expression. The step fails if a match is not found before the timeout expires. Yes

Move Directory

Move the contents of a directory to another directory.

Name Type Description Required
Destination Directory String The directory to move to. Yes
Exclude Files String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the files to skip. For example, if you specify **/*.zip, all .zip files in all subdirectories are excluded. No
Include Files String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the files to move. The default, **/*, includes all files. Yes
Rename Rules String A list of rules, separated by newline characters, for renaming the files in the destination directories. Use the format FROM->TO. For example, specify a.txt->b.txt to rename files named a.txt to b.txt and use *.java->*.java.bak to change file suffixes from .java to .java.bak. Rules are applied in the order that they are specified. No more than one rule is applied to a file. No
Source Directory String The directory to move. Yes

Read Properties From XML File

Parse an XML file to search for properties defined by element names.

Name Type Description Required
Directory Offset String The directory relative to the current working directory that contains the files to operate on. No
Fail if no match found Boolean Select to configure the step to fail if any of the XPath expressions do not return a match. No
Property Keys String A list of elements, separated by newline characters, whose values will be used for properties. Use dot notation to refer to nested elements. For example, specify foo.bar.baz to retrieve the value of the baz element under the bar element under the foo element. Yes
XML File String The full path to the XML file to read properties from. Yes

Read Property File

Read properties from a file and set them as output properties for the step.

Name Type Description Required
Directory Offset String The directory relative to the current working directory that contains the files to operate on. No
Property File String The name of the property file to read. Yes

Replace Tokens

Replace tokens in files using properties.

Name Type Description Required
Directory Offset String The directory relative to the current working directory that contains the files to operate on. No
End Token Delimiter String The end delimiter character used to identify tokens. No
Exclude Files String A list of patterns, separated by commas or spaces, that describe the files to exclude. No
Explicit Tokens String A list, separated by newline characters, of explicit tokens to replace in the form of token->value. For example: if you specify mytoken->new_value, the step replaces mytoken with new_value. The token delimiter and property prefix settings do not apply. If you specified a value in the Property List field, the explicit tokens are added as additional values to replace, and override any properties that have the same name. You cannot use regular expressions. No
Include Files String A list of patterns, separated by commas or spaces, that describe the files to include. Yes
Property File Name String The name of the file used to store the replacement name-value pairs. You can use an existing file. If the file does not exist, it is created and then removed when the step completes. Yes
Property List String Specify a property value here to use existing property names as tokens to replace in the target files. For example: Specify ${p:environment/allProperties} to use the names of all component environment properties as tokens and the property values as the replacements. Similarly, specify ${p:component/allProperties},${p:environment/allProperties} to use the names of all component and component environment properties as tokens. The token delimiter and property prefix settings apply. If you specify @ for the start and end token delimiters and a property named token1 exists, then the step searches for @token1@ to replace. No
Property Prefix String Specify a prefix to use to determine which properties are included in token replacement. Leave blank to include all properties. No
Start Token Delimiter String The start delimiter character used to identify tokens. No

Synchronize Directories

Move new files in a source directory to a destination directory, and delete files in the destination directory that are not in the source directory. Synchronization is based on the time stamp of the file.

Name Type Description Required
Destination Directories String A list of directories to copy to and synchronize, separated by newline characters. Yes
Exclude Files String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the files to skip. For example, if you specify **/*.zip, all .zip files in all subdirectories are excluded. No
Include Files String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the files to synchronize. The default, **/*, includes all files. Yes
Overwrite Boolean Select to overwrite target files even if they are newer than source files. No
Preserve In Target Exclude Files String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe files to skip for preservation in the target directories. No
Preserve In Target Include Files String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe files to include for preservation in the target directories. No
Source Directory String The synchronization source directory. Yes

Untar Tarball

Extract a .tar file.

| Name | Type | Description | Required | | —- | —- | ——————————————————————————————————————– | ——– | | Extract directory | String | The directory to extract the .tar file to. | No | | Overwrite files | Boolean | If selected, files are overwritten even if they are newer than files in the .tar file. | No | | Tarball | String | The .tar file to extract. Use wildcards that are supported by Ant pattern matching to extract multiple .tar files. For example, if you specify json-*.tar, both json-c-0.10.tar and json-c-0.20.tar are extracted. | Yes | | Tarball | Enumeration:

Unzip

Extract a .zip file.

Name Type Description Required
.zip files String A list of patterns, separated by commas or spaces, that describe the .zip files to extract. Yes
Exclude Files String A list of patterns, separated by commas or spaces, that describe the files in the archive to skip. No
Extract directory String The directory to extract the .zip file to. No
Include Files String A list of patterns, separated by commas or spaces, that describe the files in the archive to extract. Yes
Overwrite files Boolean If selected, files are overwritten even if they are newer than files in the .zip file. No

Update INI File

Update a file in the Microsoft Windows INI format. This step supports property sections.

Name Type Description Required
Add Section Comments String Specify a list of comments, separated by newline characters, to add to sections. For example, specify section1=newComment to add newComment in a comment line above the section1 section. No
File Name String The name of the file to update. Yes
Remove properties String A list of properties to remove, separated by newline characters. To remove properties in subsections, add the full path of the parent sections to the property name, using a backslash () as a separator. For example, specify section1\section2\propertyName to remove the propertyName property in the section2 subsection of the section1 section. No
Update properties String A list of name-value pairs to update, separated by newline characters. Use the format section\name=value. Comments that precede a property line are added to the property. Comment lines begin with a semicolon (;) or number sign (#). To update properties in subsections, add the full path of the parent sections to the property name, using a backslash () as a separator. For example, specify section1\section2\propertyName=value to update the propertyName property in the section2 subsection of the section1 section. No
Use # character for comments Boolean Select to use the number sign (#) to indicate a comment. Clear to use the semicolon (;) to indicate a comment. No

Update Property File

Add, remove, or update properties in a properties file.

Name Type Description Required
Add/Update properties String A list of name-value pairs, separated by newline characters. This field takes precedence over Additional properties. Use the format property_name=property_value. No
Additional properties String A list of additional properties, separated by commas. For example, specify ${p:environment/allProperties} to add all environment properties as name-value pairs to the list of properties to update. No
Additional properties prefix String Specify a prefix to use to filter the properties specified in Additional properties. The prefix is removed from the property name to form the property that is added to the property file. No
Directory Offset String The directory relative to the current working directory that contains the files to operate on. No
File Excludes String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the property files to skip. No
File Includes String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the property files to edit. Yes
Remove properties String A list of names of properties to remove, separated by newline characters. No

Update XML File with XPath

Update XML files using XPath to locate items to edit.

Name Type Description Required
Destination Directory Offset String The directory relative to the current working directory where the edited XML files will be stored. No
Fail if no match found Boolean Select to configure the step to fail if any of the XPath expressions do not return a match. No
File Excludes String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, the describe the files to skip. No
File Includes String A list of patterns, separated by newline characters, that describe the files to modify. Yes
Insert XML String A list of XPath expression-content pairs, separated by newline characters. Use the format expression->content. For example, specify /root/foo->&<bar/&> to insert an empty bar element under all foo elements in the root element. No
Remove String A list of XPath expressions, separated by newline characters, that specify elements to remove. For example, specify /root/foo to remove all foo elements under the root element. No
Replace with text String A list of XPath expression-replacement pairs, separated by newline characters. Use the format expression->replacement. For example, specify /root/foo/@bar->my_bar to replace the bar attribute value for all foo elements under the root element with my_bar. The step does nothing if the specified expression does not exist in the source files. No
Set Attributes String A list of XPath expression-content pairs, separated by newline characters. Use the format expression->content. For example, specify /root/foo/@bar->my_bar to replace the bar attribute value for all foo elements under the root element with my_bar. The XPath expression must end with the /@name of the attribute to insert or update. No
Source Directory Offset String The directory relative to the current working directory that contains the files to operate on. No
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