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<h2>archives</a></h2>

<p>This resource collection accepts an arbitrary number of nested
  resources and assumes that all those resources must be archives of one
  of the supported formats.  The resources returned
  by <code>&lt;archives&gt;</code> are the contents of the nested
  archives.</p>

<p><em>archives</em> doesn't support any attributes.</p>

<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>

  <p><code>&lt;archives&gt;</code> has four nested
    elements <code>&lt;ars&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;cpios&gt;</code>,
    <code>&lt;zips&gt;</code> and
    <code>&lt;tars&gt;</code> that are <a href="http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTypes/resources.html#union">unions</a>
    themselves, i.e. they accept arbitrary many resource(collection)s
    as nested elements.</p>

  <p>The nested resources of &lt;zips&gt; are treated as ZIP archives,
    the nested resources of &lt;tars&gt; as TAR archives and so on.</p>

  <h4>Examples</h4>

  <p>Copies all files from all jars that are on the classpath
    to <code>${target}</code>.</p>

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    &lt;copy todir="${target}"&gt;
      &lt;cmp:archives xmlns:cmp="antlib:org.apache.ant.compress"&gt;
        &lt;zips&gt;
          &lt;restrict&gt;
            &lt;path path="${java.class.path}"/&gt;
            &lt;name name="*.jar"/&gt;
          &lt;/restrict&gt;
        &lt;/zips&gt;
      &lt;/cmp:archives&gt;
    &lt;/copy&gt;
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