For asp.net boilerplate core version, robocopy required for publish

Question

When doing a "dotnet publish" on windows for a freshly downloaded asp.net boilerplate template, everything works fine, and the resulting puplish folder can be used.

However when doing the same on linux, I get the following:

/bin/sh: 2: /tmp/tmpda90e7b4d99846c4936a6816fb7d9654.exec.cmd: robocopy: not found

Is there a specific way I am supposed to do a publish for asp.net boilerplate on linux?

see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3694290/using-robocopy-to-deploy-sites — Alper Ebicoglu, Jul 20 '18 at 20:28
Robocopy is windows specific. The question is about creating a publishable folder for asp.net boilerplate on linux. — Bertus van Zyl, Jul 20 '18 at 21:26

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '18 at 10:39

AspNet Boilerplate merged solution has a PrepublishScript that executing a Robocopy step. Since Linux OS has no Robocopy command, you need to remove the below line in your MyProject.Web.Host.csproj

<Exec Command="robocopy $(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\wwwroot\dist\ $(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\wwwroot\ /S /E /MOVE" IgnoreExitCode="True" />

Click here to go to the related source code line.

And you need to make that step manually; copy the content of the $(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\wwwroot\dist\ to $(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\wwwroot\

PS: MSBuildProjectDirectory is the property that will give you the full path to the project file which was invoked on the command line

This answers my question. Thank you. – Bertus van Zyl Jul 24 '18 at 05:22 — Bertus van Zyl, Jul 24 '18 at 05:22

For asp.net boilerplate core version, robocopy required for publish

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