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How to get Grunt-Contrib-Copy to copy files/directories relative to given source path

rated 0 times [ 158] [ 1] / answers: 1 / hits: 16420 / 10 Years ago, thu, march 27, 2014, 12:00:00

First time using this task and what I'm trying to achieve is the following:

copy all directories/files from src/js/bower_components/* to build/assets/js/vendor/

I've tried using cwd property but it doesn't work at all when I use it.. I've set it to: src/js/bower_components/

From src

.

├── Gruntfile

└── src

    └── js

        └── bower_components

            └── jquery

I currently get:

.

├── Gruntfile

└── build

    └── assets

        └── js

            └── vendor

                src

                └── js

                    └── bower_components

                        └── jquery

What I'd like

.

├── Gruntfile

└── build

    └── assets

        └── js

            └── vendor

                └──jquery

Here's my current grunt task

copy: {

  main: {

    src: 'src/js/bower_components/*',

    dest: 'build/assets/js/vendor/',

    expand: true,

  }

},

Thanks for any help

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answered 10 Years ago jenamackennac · Accepted Answer

I've set up an example project with tree like this:

.

├── Gruntfile.js

├── package.json

└── src

    └── js

        └── foo.js

Using the below Gruntfile:

module.exports = function(grunt) {

  require('matchdep').filterDev('grunt-*').forEach(grunt.loadNpmTasks);



  grunt.initConfig({

    copy          : {

      foo : {

        files : [

          {

            expand : true,

            dest   : 'dist',

            cwd    : 'src',

            src    : [

              '**/*.js'

            ]

          }

        ]

      }

    }

  });



  grunt.registerTask('build', function(target) {

    grunt.task.run('copy');

  });



};

This gave me this structure:

.

├── Gruntfile.js

├── dist

│   └── js

│       └── foo.js

├── package.json

└── src

    └── js

        └── foo.js

When I had changed cwd so that the Gruntfile read:

module.exports = function(grunt) {

  require('matchdep').filterDev('grunt-*').forEach(grunt.loadNpmTasks);



  grunt.initConfig({

    copy          : {

      foo : {

        files : [

          {

            expand : true,

            dest   : 'dist',

            cwd    : 'src/js',

            src    : [

              '**/*.js'

            ]

          }

        ]

      }

    }

  });



  grunt.registerTask('build', function(target) {

    grunt.task.run('copy');

  });



};

I got this dir structure:

.

├── Gruntfile.js

├── dist

│   └── foo.js

├── package.json

└── src

    └── js

        └── foo.js

So it seems like cwd does what you need. Maybe you left src at src/js/bower_components/* when setting cwd to src/js/bower_components? In that case, src should read something like **/*.js, but depending on what you really need.