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From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: 03 Jul 2001 16:03:55 +0200
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Rupam Das <Rupam.Das@itsindia.com> wrote:

> Scenario:-
> ========= 
> I want to pass the value for these two property from the command
> line.
> 
> <property name="build" value=""/>
> <property name="dist"  value=""/>

make that 

<property name="build" value="${build.from.batch}"/>
<property name="dist"  value="${dist.from.batch}"/>

and invoke Ant as 

ant -Dbuild.from.batch=foo -Ddist.from.batch=bar

Stefan