grunt-contrib-copy: Unable to read file (Error code: ENOENT)

Hi,

since I’m very to new to Grunt I’m sure the problem here is on my side, but I simply can’t figure it out. Here’s my directory structure:

.
├── _build
    └── Gruntfile.js
└── css
    ├── img
    └── src
        └── images
            ├── img-01.jpg
            └── img-02.jpg

I now want all the images from ./css/src/images to be copied to ./css/img. I think the closest I got was using this code:

copy: {
        main: {
            expand: true,
            files: [
                {
                    cwd: '../css/src/images/',
                    src: ['**'],
                    dest: '../css/img'
                }
            ]
        }
 }

Which resulted in the --verbose output:

Running "copy:main" (copy) task
Verifying property copy.main exists in config...OK
Files: , img-01.jpg, img-02.jpg -> ../css/img
Options: processContent=false, processContentExclude=[]
Creating ../css/img
Copying img-01.jpg -> ../css/img
Reading img-01.jpg...ERROR
Warning: Unable to read "img-01.jpg" file (Error code: ENOENT). Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

The file img-01.jpg is obviously there so I don’t really get the error message. Can anyone give me a hint here?

Thanks in advance, Tobi

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 11 years ago
Comments: 22 (6 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@papatoob it appears you need to you need expand:true when using cwd

copy: {
        main: {
            expand: true,
            files: [
                {
                    expand: true,
                    cwd: '../css/src/images/',
                    src: ['**'],
                    dest: '../css/img'
                }
            ]
        }
 }

+31

LaurentGoderre on Aug 16, 2013

Ok, this is pretty funny, I was running into this issue, forgetting I had solved it, googled the problem, ended up here and saw my own answer.

+18

LaurentGoderre on Aug 6, 2014

I faced the same issue when my image file was actually a shortcut. It worked when I copied the original file.

akhilgs on Mar 1, 2017

Just wanted to add that this idiosyncrasy cost me a bit of time and almost made me look for other grunt add-ons. Can I suggest that README be updated with this fact ie., cwd:'path/' only works w/ expand:true?

Update: saw #161 - fine if that was the update. I do still want to emphasize that if you have grunt newbies coming (like me) it might still be helpful for this be documented here - just my 2c. Thanks for building!

devmanhinton on May 6, 2015