Summary

A task that concatenates a set of files. Loosely based on Ant's Concat task.

Assembly

NAnt.Contrib.dll

Namespace

NAnt.Contrib.Tasks

Base Types

Task

graph BT Type-->Base0["Task"] Type["ConcatTask"] class Type type-node

Syntax

[TaskName("concat")]
public class ConcatTask : Task

Examples

    <concat destfile="${outputdir}\Full.txt" append="true">
    <fileset>
        <include name="${outputdir}\Test-*.txt" />
    </fileset>
</concat>

Remarks

This task takes a set of input files in a fileset and concatenates them into a single file. You can either replace the output file, or append to it by using the append attribute.

The order the files are concatenated in is not especified.

Attributes

Type	Description
TaskName

Properties

Name	Value	Summary
Append	bool	Specifies whether to append to the destination file. The default is `false`.
DestinationFile	FileInfo	Name of the destination file.
FileSet	FileSet	Set of files to use as input.

Methods

Name	Value	Summary
ExecuteTask()	void	This is where the work is done
Initialize()	void	Initializes task and ensures the supplied attributes are valid.