In our quest for ultimate project automation, it won't be long before we'll want to automate the copying of files or directories from one part of our project to another. The contrib-copy(0.5.0) plugin provides us with this functionality, along with some other options that become especially useful in the process of copying files.
In this example, we'll work with the basic project structure we created in the Installing Grunt on a project recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Grunt. Be sure to refer to it if you are not yet familiar with its contents.
The following steps will take us through copying a single file from one directory to another.
We'll start by installing the package that contains the
contrib-copyplugin as per the instructions provided in the Installing a plugin recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Grunt.Let's also set up a sample file in our project, which we can try out with the copy operation. Create a file named
sample.txtin...