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From: "james terry" <james.terry@unikala.com>
To: <ant-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Passing in -D argument with space to the ant.bat script
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:45:41 -0800
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one work-around would be to use: "dir /x" to get the 8.3 name of "dir
with spacees".


james@livemedia.com


- -----Original Message-----
From: William Lee [mailto:wlee@sendmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:16 PM
To: Ant User
Subject: Passing in -D argument with space to the ant.bat script


The "ant.bat" script that comes with Ant 1.2 doesn't seem to support
- -D
options with space in it.  For example, I can do:

c:\> ant -DPROP="dir with space"

I'll get:

with was unexpected at this time.

I looked in the script bin\ant.bat and the following section is not
working around line 23:

:setupArgs

if "%1"=="" goto doneArgs
set ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS=%ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS% %1

shift

goto setupArgs

I tried to print out %1 through echo, the thing is that it can only
get
the "-DPROP" part, but not the quoted string "dir with space".  I
don't
know much about NT scripting so if anyone knows how to get this to
work
I'd be very happy.  Thanks.

Will

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