This might be one of those forest-for-the-trees situations... why would you use the find command in Ant when one of Ant's oldest features is directory scanning; i.e. finding files based on various criteria?
-Matt --- "Anderson, Rob (Global Trade)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
