[source,groovy]
----
copy {
    from("resources")
    into("target")
    include("**/*.txt", "**/*.xml", "**/*.properties")
}
----

NOTE: This option breaks task configuration avoidance and is not recommended!

Regardless of the method chosen, the task is configured with the name of the files to be copied and the location of the files.

[[sec:implementing_tasks]]
=== 3. Implementing tasks

        // dependencies on the classpath share a version. This can _still_ lead to duplicates on the classpath, but it is at least
        // avoidable if the user adds junit-platform-launcher to their test runtime classpath, which they should be doing, since
        // distribution loading is deprecated in Gradle 8.2.