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From: "Ivan \"Rambius\" Ivanov" <rambiusparkisanius@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Unix commads behaving different in Ant task
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Hello,

--- Venkat Kotu <vkotu@porticosys.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I have a situation where in I need to find all the
> .jar files in  a
> directory and write it to a temp file.
You can use a pure Ant solution using <fileset> and
<pathconvert>:
<fileset id="jar.files.od" dir="myDir">
  <include name="*.jar"/>
</fileset>
<pathconvert refid="jar.files.id"
property="jar.files"/>
<echo file="tempfile">${jar.files}</echo>

> The command from the prompt is : find myDir/*.jar
> and it lists all the
> .jar files from myDir directory.
Wildcards are expanded by the shell and not by the
unix commands. Usually the commands run with <exec>
and started via java.lang.Runtime.exec() so the shell
is not used, so no wildcards expansion happens.

> 
> The ant target defined for the purpose is: 
> 
> <target name="list.jars">
> 
>             <exec os="unix" executable="find"
> outputproperty="temp.txt">
> 
>                         <arg
> line="$basedir}/myDir/*.jar"/>
> 
>             </exec>
> 
>  </target>

I believe it must be something like this:
<exec executable="sh">
  <arg line="find ${basedir}}/myDir/*.jar"/>
</exec>

Of course it is better to use the pure ant solution.
Anyway, wildcards with <exec> is asked often (so it is
a FAQ candidate) and the last time it was asked was
about a week ago, so please take a look at the
archives for more information.

Regards
Ivan

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