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From: murthy gandikota <murthy_gandikota@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: How to process multiple files using exec
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Many thanks, Jeff.

Jeffrey E Care <carej@us.ibm.com> wrote:  
use apply, not exec
    ____________________________________________________________________________________________   Jeffrey E. (Jeff) Care   carej@us.ibm.com 
  IBM WebSphere Application Server Development   WAS Pyxis Lead Release Engineer 
    
 
 
 
murthy gandikota <murthy_gandikota@yahoo.com> wrote on 03/27/2006 03:36:43 PM:
 
 > Hi
 > I have a tar xvf task to run on all the files in a directory. Here 
 > is my ant script:
 > 
 > <exec append="true" executable="tar" dir="${a}/help" failonerror="true">
 >                         <arg line="xvf acurate_help.tar" />
 >                 </exec>
 > 
 > How can I extend it to all the files found under ${a}/help?
 > 
 > TIA
 > Murthy
 > 
 >          
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