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Subject: echo "something" >> somefile 
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:23:41 -0800
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I am trying get ant to do the exact equivalent of:
echo "This is a line of text in a file" >> file.txt=20
Note that I am appending to the file.
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I want a text file in my build directory that has two columns:
Build_Number and Build_Date.  Each time I do a build, I want to add one
line to that file.
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Ant keeps putting the output on the same line.  A solution is to put a
carriage return in the message itself, but that destroys my formatting -
something that I am obsessive about.   If I put the </echo> in the right
(formatted) spot, then I get all the tabs in my output file  (see below)
=2E
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Is there a way to append a single line at the end of a file?  Or do I
need to call exec?   Why would echo in ant have been designed
differently than echo in all other languages?
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Thanks in advance,
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Matt
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<!-- This keeps appending to the same line. -->
<target name=3D"logit">
  <echo file=3D"log" append=3D"true">${buildNum} ${BuildDate}.</echo>
</target>
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<!-- This works but makes my skin crawl. (and will be formated by my
IDE)-->
<target name=3D"logit">
  <echo file=3D"log" append=3D"true">${buildNum} ${BuildDate}.
</echo>
</target>
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<!-- This indents each line by two spaces. -->
<target name=3D"logit">
  <echo file=3D"log" append=3D"true">${buildNum} ${BuildDate}.
  </echo>
</target>
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