Ant does not resolve the wildcard. The called program does - or does not. Have you tried to specify the shell (sh,bsh,...) on your second example? see: http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#batch-shell-execute
Jan >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >Von: Lloyd, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 17:16 >An: user@ant.apache.org >Betreff: Using the '*' (wildcard) > >Hi, > I'm new to Apache ant, and I'm trying to get a very simple ><exec> to work. For some reason, wildcards ('*') work fine in >some cases but not in others. For example, the following works fine: > >Note: In ./File/src/obj there is one file - File.o. And >running "ls ./File/src/obj/*.o" from a terminal works. > ><exec executable = "find"> > <arg line = './File/src/obj/ -name"*.o"' /> </exec> > >This, however, doesn't: > ><exec executable = "ls"> > <arg line = "./File/src/obj/*.o" /> ></exec> > >It gives me the error: ls: ./File/src/obj/*.o: No such File or >Directory. > >It's like Ant isn't resolving the wildcard in the second case. > >Can anyone tell me how to get the second example to work? > >Also, I'm using version 1.6.5 on a red hat system. > >Thanks! >Eric Lloyd > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >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]
