# D.3 FileList FileLists offer a way to represent a specific list of files. Unlike [FileSets](apds04.html "D.4 FileSet"), FileLists may contain files that do not exist on the filesystem. Also, FileLists can represent files in a specific order -- whereas FileSets represent files in whichever order they are returned by the filesystem. Table D.2:聽 Attributes for the `<filelist>` tag NameTypeDescriptionDefaultRequired`dir``String`The directory, to which the paths given in ``` files ``` or `listfile` are relative.n/aYes`files``String`Comma or space-separated list of files.n/aYes (or `listfile)` `listfile``String`A text file with one filename per line.n/aYes (or `files)` D.3.1 Usage Examples `<filelist dir="/etc" files="httpd/conf/httpd.conf,php.ini"/>` Or you can use a `listfile`, which is expected to contain one filename per line: `<filelist dir="conf/" listfile="ini_files.txt"/>` This will grab each file as listed in `ini_files.txt`. This can be useful if one task compiles a list of files to process and another task needs to read in that list and perform some action to those files.