getting absolute value for parent dir

[aruna vempaty <ar...@yahoo.com>]

Hi:

I am trying to get the absolute path of the parent directory in ant as  a variable value

<project name="CreateProviders" default="all" basedir=".">
 <echo >
    pwd =  "${..}"/>
    pwd = Current Dir -- ${pwd}
    </echo>

 this is printing as ..
 pwd =  "${..}"/>
     [echo]     pwd = Current Dir -- ${pwd}

Can some one help me to get the value. Even if i assign 
pwd = "${../basedir}", it is not expanding the value. But it is expanding at run time. I need to capture this value and assign to some other property

Thanks
Aruna




      

Re: getting absolute value for parent dir

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, aruna vempaty <ar...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am trying to get the absolute path of the parent directory in ant
> as  a variable value

This question should really go to the user list, not here.

     <property name="parentdir" location=".."/>

Stefan

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