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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ Usage:
copy(self, "*.lib", self.build_folder, os.path.join(self.package_folder, "lib"))


Since Conan 2.32, the ``pattern`` argument also accepts a list or tuple of patterns. When a list
is provided, the source folder is walked only once and every file matching any of the patterns
is copied, which can be significantly faster than calling ``copy()`` several times for large trees:

.. code-block:: python

def package(self):
copy(self, ["*.h", "*.hpp"], self.source_folder,
os.path.join(self.package_folder, "include"))


.. note::

The files that are **symlinks to files** or **symlinks to folders** with be treated like any other file, so they will only
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