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    Exec task seems to disregard quotes and apostrophes in arg attribute
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Exec task seems to disregard quotes and apostrophes in arg attribute values.





------- Additional Comments From holtdl@yahoo.com  2002-04-24 02:06 -------
I'm also running on an NT, with Cygwin -- is that what you have? You said when 
you run the 'find' directly on the box, it runs okay, so I assume you've got 
some kind of Unix-type shell, yes? But given the error message you got, it 
looks like the 'find' that got executed from Ant was the DOS one -- are you 
running Ant from a DOS window?

As for the -verbose output -- don't believe it. Just because you can't see the 
quotes in that output doesn't mean the shell didn't get passed the right thing 
(which it did, since all those examples work for me). So you might want to try 
your original one again, changing:
  <arg line="-exec rm -f &quot;{}&quot; &quot;;&quot;"/>
to
  <arg line='-exec rm -f "{}" ";"'/>
and see if it does work for you.

Otherwise, since your workaround is pretty yuck, wouldn't it be better to just 
put it in a script and <exec> that?

BTW: Thanks for mentioning escaping an asterisk -- I hadn't thought of doing 
that, but I just tried adding -name "\*.java" to my <arg> and it worked. (Cool)

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