Not in this case. The shell does not need to expand the asterisk for the find command to work. In fact, the shell can often times cause an error when running the find command because it expands the asterisk when it should not.
For example: $ touch something.txt antherthing.txt yetanother.txt $ find ./ -name *.txt find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path...] [expression] This error occurs because the shell will expand the asterisk and pass in the three .txt files as args to find. Now try this: $ rm *.txt # be carefull to run this in some temp dir $ mkdir newdir $ touch newdir/something.txt newdir/anotherthing.txt newdir/yetanother.txt $ find ./ -name *.txt ./newdir/something.txt ./newdir/anotherthing.txt ./newdir/yetanother.txt It works as expected because the shell does not expand the asterisk. Anyway, I agree that you are better off doing this with a fileset in Ant, since it will be a cross platform solution. -Rob A > -----Original Message----- > From: Scot P. Floess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 10:26 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: Unix commads behaving different in Ant task > > That won't work as a shell expands the asterisk.... > > Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) wrote: > > Your usage of the find command is incorrect. To find all > the jars in > > ./myDir you would run the following: > > > > Find ./myDir -name *.jar > > > > You should change the arg line to: > > > > <arg line="$basedir}/myDir -name *.jar"/> > > > > -Rob A > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Venkat Kotu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 11:42 AM > >> To: user@ant.apache.org > >> Subject: Unix commads behaving different in Ant task > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> > >> I have a situation where in I need to find all the .jar > files in a > >> directory and write it to a temp file. > >> > >> > >> > >> The command from the prompt is : find myDir/*.jar and it lists all > >> the .jar files from myDir directory. > >> > >> > >> > >> The ant target defined for the purpose is: > >> > >> > >> > >> <target name="list.jars"> > >> > >> <exec os="unix" executable="find" > >> outputproperty="temp.txt"> > >> > >> <arg line="$basedir}/myDir/*.jar"/> > >> > >> </exec> > >> > >> </target> > >> > >> > >> > >> This does not return any thing. > >> > >> > >> > >> What I am doing wrong? > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Venkat Kotu > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional > > commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > Scot P. Floess > 27 Lake Royale > Louisburg, NC 27549 > > 252-478-8087 (Home) > 919-754-4592 (Work) > > 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] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
