You might want to look at the -emacs command line option to surpress the 'prefixing' that appears on the output
----- Original Message ---- From: Iván Pérez Domínguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: user@ant.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:54:30 PM Subject: Quiet output I'm writing a build.xml file that tests a program. Before using ANT, I had a bash script that printed the results like init.d scripts do when started/stopped. For instance, for an input file to be tested, called mtp.mtp, it printed something like mtp.mtp [OK] if everything went ok, and mtp.mtp [!!] if something went wrong. In both cases, the real output was saved in a log file. Now I'm using ANT, I'd like it to be the same way, but the output happens to be way too verbose unless ANT is called with -quiet. Is there any way to force this quiet flag, or to hide the commands output? I don't like ANT to prefix the output with the command that produced it either. For instance, if I write <echo>Message</echo> ant prints something like [echo] Message Is there any way to hide that too? Cheers.