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pathconvert?

http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/pathconvert.html

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 13:13, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to execute a command with a large, not known in advance,
> number of files, each listed as separate argument.  I have been
> unable to figure out how to do this with Ant.
> 
> Roughly speaking, I want sth. like
> 
> 	<exec executable="cat">
> 	  <fileset>
> 	    <include name="*.java"/>
> 	  </fileset>
> 	</exec>
> 
> except that I don't know how to convert the fileset into a set
> of <arg>s.
> 
> 	<path id="foo">
> 	  <fileset dir="...">
> 	    <include name="*.java"/>
> 	  </fileset>
> 	</path>
> 	<exec executable="cat">
> 	  <arg pathref="foo"/>
> 	</exec>
> 
> gives the files combined together in one argument...
> 
> Paul
> 
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