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How do I get a property treated as a value rather than a location?
Hi,
I'm not a particularly strong user of ant so please bear with me. Is there a
way of getting a property in a property file treated as a value rather than
a location? For example, I have the following:
build.property:
mytest.dir="/tmp/jon"
build.xml:
.
.
.
<property file="build.property" />
.
.
.
<target name="fred">
<mkdir dir="${mytest.dir}" />
</target>
The directory ${mytest.dir} will be created where I am running the ant
script from (in an eclipse workspace) rather than in /tmp. If I declare the
property in the build.xml then I get the behaviour I desire - but that seems
to be a bit kludgy,
Harold.
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RE: How do I get a property treated as a value rather than a
location?
Posted by "Holman, Chris" <Ch...@bskyb.com>.
You could use this:
<mkdir dir="${basedir}${mytest.dir}" />
Regards,
Chris Holman
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrisdholman
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From: twiddle-dee12 [mailto:harold.thurnstein@gmail.com]
Sent: 24 October 2011 10:51
To: user@ant.apache.org
Subject: How do I get a property treated as a value rather than a location?
Hi,
I'm not a particularly strong user of ant so please bear with me. Is there a
way of getting a property in a property file treated as a value rather than
a location? For example, I have the following:
build.property:
mytest.dir="/tmp/jon"
build.xml:
.
.
.
<property file="build.property" />
.
.
.
<target name="fred">
<mkdir dir="${mytest.dir}" />
</target>
The directory ${mytest.dir} will be created where I am running the ant
script from (in an eclipse workspace) rather than in /tmp. If I declare the
property in the build.xml then I get the behaviour I desire - but that seems
to be a bit kludgy,
Harold.
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Re: How do I get a property treated as a value rather than a location?
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On 2011-10-24, twiddle-dee12 wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm not a particularly strong user of ant so please bear with me. Is there a
> way of getting a property in a property file treated as a value rather than
> a location? For example, I have the following:
> build.property:
> mytest.dir="/tmp/jon"
Are the quotes around /tmp/jon a typo? You don't need quotes in
property files.
> <property file="build.property" />
> .
> <target name="fred">
> <mkdir dir="${mytest.dir}" />
> </target>
> The directory ${mytest.dir} will be created where I am running the ant
> script from
This should not happen. What is the literal value of ${mytest.dir} when
you <echo> it? Since the value starts with a / Ant will know it is an
absolute path and things should work as you expect them.
Stefan
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