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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Ludovic Claude <lc...@websitewatchers.com> on 2000/02/04 22:59:31 UTC

Re: Example of ant script using exec()


"Booth, Peter" wrote:

> Can anyone give me an example of an ant build.xml file
> that uses the exec() target? When I try this in NT I
> get:
>
>  BUILD CONFIG ERROR could not create task of type exec
> due to java.lang.NullPointerException
>
> I do have ANT_HOME and ant.home property pointing to
> a directory containg antRun.bat

> Peter Booth

Here is an example using sourcesafe on NT:

    <exec dir="${src.stubs.dir}"  command="ss Checkout -o- -i- -R
$$/SLServer/etc/stubs " />

While i'm here, there is this annoying bug in ant that eats the $, so I have to
put $$ to run my command properly

Cheers,
Ludovic Claude

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