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From: Bill Winspur <bwinspur@wynnon.com>
Subject: Re: Which task
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I just joined this thread, and missed earlier messages, but... I've been
looking for a more primitive 'which' functionality on ant, more like the
unix 'which <file>' command. I'd like to search the host command path,
available in system property 'java.library.path', asking the question:
"which directory from classpath x contains file y?". An ideal task would be
something like:

<which classpath=${java.library.path} fileSought="myFileName"
propertySet="hostDir"/>

or

<which fileSought="myFileName" propertySet="hostDir">
    <path ....>
        <pathelement .../>
        ...
    </path>
</which>

I've checked the faq and browsed the 1.5.1 manual for 1.83 hours, but have
not found a way to determine a specified file's location on a path. Is there
a way to do this in ant ?

Bill Winspur.


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