Michael: If you are using ant 1.6.0 or later, your default target can be defined as:
<project name="some name" default = "some default task> Above, the default attribute defines the "default" task to run when you execute ant against the build.xml (or whatever your ant build script's name is). What is it you want to pass from the command line? You can do -D's to your ant scripts I suppose like: ant -Dfoo=bar <build script>.xml What exactly are you attempting to do? -----Original Message----- From: Michael Giroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Dec 6, 2005 10:17 AM To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org> Subject: How to use ANT as a command shell I'm attempting to develop platform neutral launch scripts using ANT. The product currently has bin/nt and bin/unix folders with shell scripts specific to each platform. I would like to replace this with a single bin folder containing ant scripts. The main issue is that ANT treats command line args as target names. Is there any way to cause ANT to 1) always invoke the default target 2) make the command line args available as a set of properties or some form of enumeration Michael Giroux Scot P. Floess 27 Lake Royale Louisburg, NC 27549 (252) 478-8087 (Home) Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
