Element: <destination>

Syntax


<!ELEMENT destination    (#PCDATA)>

This element occurs in the elements copy, download, move and unpack. .

Description

The element destination is used to specify the name of the destination file or directory when processing a copy, move or unpack element.

It is also used to specify the path of the destination directory when processing a download element.

Examples

The first example is an unpack command.


<unpack>
    <archive>/usr/src/lfs-packages/gzip.1.2.4a.tar.gz</archive>
    <destination>/usr/src</destination>
</unpack>

The equivalent bash script is :


echo Unpacking /usr/src/lfs-packages/gzip.1.2.4a.tar.gz into /usr/src
cd /usr/src
tar xzvf /usr/src/lfs-packages/gzip.1.2.4a.tar.gz

The second example is a copy command.


<copy base="/usr/src/mypackage">
   <option>force</option>
   <source>config.txt</source>
   <destination>/opt/mypackage/config.txt</destination>
</copy>

The equivalent bash script is :


echo Copying 'config.txt into /opt/mypackage/config.txt'
cd /usr/src/mypackage
cp -f  config.txt /opt/mypackage/config.txt