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From: Stephane Bailliez <sbailliez@imediation.com>
To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
Cc: monsorno@exolution.de
Subject: RE: how to print out paths
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:10:01 -0000
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<property name=3D"a.path" refid=3D"a.path"/>
<echo message=3D"this is my path: ${a.path}"/>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Monsorno [mailto:monsorno@exolution.de]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:59 PM
> To: ant user mailing list
> Subject: how to print out paths
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> Is it possible to get a path structure as a string?
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> What I really want to do is the following:
> I build up the classpath for compiling in my build.xml file.
> Then I like to use this classpath in a shell script with
> which I like to start my application, but both echo or
> filter tasks do not have nested path elements.
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> As I think, the most convenient way to achieve this would
> be if you can access a path as a property value, such that
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> <path id=3D"a.path">
>    ...
> </path>
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> ...
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> <echo message=3D"${a.path} />
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> would print the whole path.
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> Does somebody know how to achieve this?
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> Martin Monsorno
> mailto:Martin.Monsorno@exolution.de
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