Gradle task to rename file

Question

I want to do a simple file rename in a gradle task. I have a jar called project-1.5.jar under the folder src and I want the jar to be renamed to just project.jar

So,

project/project-1.5.jar to project/project.jar using gradle

Any ideas are much appreciated.

Answer 1

The rename method should do the trick.

task renameArtifacts (type: Copy) {
    from ('project/')
    include 'project-1.5.jar'
    destinationDir file('project/')
    rename 'project-1.5.jar', "project.jar"
}