I've gotten tired of writing build process management scripts full of angle brackets to move files around; the task is fairly simple. With a set of directories containing a layout like this:

project A\dist\jar-of-interest.jar
project B\lib\jar-of-interest.jar (old version)
project C\WebContent\WEB-INF\Lib\jar-of-interest.jar (old version)

I would like to locate a utility which would let me do a command of similar structure to

UPDATE /from="project A\dist\jar-of-interest.jar" /to="project B" /to="project C"

and the utility would handle directory descent and matching files. I could write something to handle this, but I've got other deadlines that my time could be better spent chasing...

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Be a man and write a real distribution script that copies it the right place. This sort of automatic searching feels like a bad idea to me, I can see potential for it going very wrong. Also this question would probably get more answers on stackoverflow or serverfault. – davr Feb 7 '10 at 6:04
Too many distribution scripts to want to manage them that way. This seemed like it could be a user-level need at times, as well, thus its presence over here on SU rather than at SO. – Tetsujin no Oni Feb 16 '10 at 2:23
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