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AW: how to exec with a set of files as multiple arguments?

<fileset id/>
<pathconvert/>
<exec>
     <arg line/>
</>


Jan

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>Von: Paul Pogonyshev [mailto:p.pogonyshev@finamatics.com] 
>Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 14:14
>An: user@ant.apache.org
>Betreff: how to exec with a set of files as multiple arguments?
>
>Hi,
>
>I need to execute a command with a large, not known in 
>advance, number of files, each listed as separate argument.  I 
>have been unable to figure out how to do this with Ant.
>
>Roughly speaking, I want sth. like
>
>	<exec executable="cat">
>	  <fileset>
>	    <include name="*.java"/>
>	  </fileset>
>	</exec>
>
>except that I don't know how to convert the fileset into a set 
>of <arg>s.
>
>	<path id="foo">
>	  <fileset dir="...">
>	    <include name="*.java"/>
>	  </fileset>
>	</path>
>	<exec executable="cat">
>	  <arg pathref="foo"/>
>	</exec>
>
>gives the files combined together in one argument...
>
>Paul
>
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Re: AW: how to exec with a set of files as multiple arguments?

Posted by Paul Pogonyshev <p....@finamatics.com>.
On 17 February 2006 15:08, Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de wrote:
> <fileset id/>
> <pathconvert/>
> <exec>
>      <arg line/>
> </>

Thanks, that works OK.  <arg line=.../> is kind of deprecated,
but I assume there is no other way.

Thanks again.

Paul

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