Re: Dynamically increase the number of arguments to EXEC task based on the number and name of the file(s) in a directory.

[Jeffrey E Care]

Use the <apply> task.



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Jeffrey E. (Jeff) Care 

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IBM WebSphere Application
Server Development 

WAS Pyxis Lead
Release Engineer 






"Guttula, Mohan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote on 04/06/2006 09:37:01 AM:

> Hello All,
> 
>  
> 
> Requirement: Dynamically increase the number of arguments to EXEC
task
> based on the number and name of the file in a directory.
> 
>  
> 
> For example a sample directory contains the following files with
> extension "*.rod" (Number of rod files in the "src"
directory
> dynamically change): 
> 
> C:\src> dir /b *.rod
> 
> Details.rod
> 
> Info.rod
> 
> Summary.rod
> 
>  
> 
> Right now, I'm hard coding the file names in arguments to EXEC task
in
> the following way
> 
> <target name="erdpro">
> 
>             <condition property="erdpro.client.dir"
value="C:\Program
> Files\Actuate8\eRDPro\bin" >
> 
>               <os family="windows"/>
> 
>             </condition>  
    
> 
>  
> 
>             <echo> Compiling ROD
files. Please wait...</echo>
> 
>             <exec dir="${erdpro.client.dir}"
> executable="${erdpro.client.dir}/erdpro" >
> 
>                    
    <arg value="-b"/>
> 
>                    
    <arg value=" Details.rod" />
> 
>                    
    <arg value=" Info.rod" />
> 
>                    
    <arg value=" Summary.rod" />
> 
>             </exec>
> 
> </target>
> 
>  
> 
> Above target is good when I hardcode the files to the "arg".
I want to
> dynamically add "arg" values based on the number and name
of the file. I
> want to know how I can achieve my requirement. (Should I use marcodef?
> If so how?)
> 
>  
> 
> Any help is highly appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mohan
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
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