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From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Getting directory/path information from a file
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On 2010-05-05, kim1 <kimitj@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to use ant to do something like the following unix command

> <find / -name myfilename>

<fileset dir="/" includes="**/myfilename"/>

> And then get the fully qualified directory location of the filename -
> and do other things with that.

If there is one - you can check with <resourcecount> you can use
<pathconvert> to get the absolute pathname.

Stefan

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