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copied!<p>I am trying to write my first Grunt task to copy some files from my common libs folder, which is out of my project directory.</p> <ul> <li>Project Folder : <code>/home/user/projects/bottle</code></li> <li>Common Libs directory : <code>/home/user/projects/common</code></li> <li>Files' source are inside Common Libs directory at : <code>lib/general/static/js/</code></li> <li>Files' destination inside project folder : <code>lib</code></li> </ul> <p>I have a <code>properties.json</code> file with Common Libs directory path as shown below</p> <pre><code>{ "common_libs" : `/home/user/projects/common` } </code></pre> <p>Now what I already tried is :</p> <pre><code>module.exports = function(grunt) { var properties = grunt.file.readJSON('properties.json'), paths = { common_libs : properties.common_libs, common_libs_js : this.common_libs + "lib/general/static/js/" }; grunt.initConfig({ copy: { main: { files: [ { expand: true, flatten : true, src: [ paths.common_libs_js + "/*" ], dest: 'lib/', filter: 'isFile' } ] } } }); grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy'); }; </code></pre> <p>I am running grunt as follows <code>grunt copy</code></p> <p>With this no files are copied to the destination.</p> <p>Help me in this.</p> <p>Also I want to know </p> <ol> <li>How can I use Ant's property tag type constants in GruntJS? Because I am getting the base folder from properties.json and I need to copy many files from different folders under the base folder.</li> <li>Can we have these type of constants per task?</li> </ol> <p>Thanks in advance.</p>

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