Hi savitha, have u ever tried antelope jar. It's very good extention of ant and has a lot of interesting tasks. (eg. if -else etc.) now for ur problem. It can be done very easily using fileutil task in antelope.jar
something like this: <taskdef name="fileutil" classname="ise.antelope.tasks.FileUtilTask"/> <target name="abc"> <fileutil file="${out_dir}" property="file_list"> <listfiles includepath="no"/> </fileutil> </target> include path is the key here for ur problem. for antelope reference use this url : http://antelope.tigris.org/ cheers!! Ankur Agarwal Tata Consultancy Services Limited Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.tcs.com "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/06/2006 09:38 AM Please respond to "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org> To user@ant.apache.org cc Subject file list without directory prepended how to get it Consider this scenario friends. build.xml | |------------lib | |----------averyveryverylong.jar |----------anotherlongjarfile.jar now when I want to build a list of files in the lib folder I am using <fileset dir="lib" id="hi"> <include file=".jar" /< </fileset> I then use pathconvert <pathconvert pathsep="," property="testing" refid="hi" /> what I am getting is c:\lib\averyveryverylong.jar,c:\lib\anotherlongjarfile.jar but that is not what I am expecting. I am expecting just averyveryverylong.jar, anotherlongjarfile.jar Can you help me out as to how to get this ? -N ForwardSourceID:NT0000C8D6 =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you