Resolve source path

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1

I want to resolve a source path, something like getSource() from DefaultCopySpec. Can I do that without using some implementation of CopySpec? Thanks.

2

Can you elaborate on your use case? You can potentially use eachFile() to get at this info but that requires actually performing the copy operation.

3

It’s hard to know exactly what you want without an example but I think you can use a fileTree and matching. Eg:

def tree = fileTree("someFolder").matching {
   include "**/*.txt"
} 
Set<File> files = tree.files

See also [FileTree] (https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/file/FileTree.html) and FileCollection javadocs