Hi, if you want/need to go a more ' Antlike ' way =
i forgot there's another possibility with the <stringutils> task from Antelope "... lastmodified Get the "last modified" date/timestamp of a file. ..." so it gets something like (untested) <fileutil file="foobar.txt" property="moddate"> <lastmodified format="..."> </fileutils> when ${moddate} contains your File.lastModified i never tried that task, but the Antelope task suite is great, recommended. get it here = http://antelope.tigris.org/files/documents/1409/11489/AntelopeTasks_3.4. 2.zip Regards, Gilbert -----Original Message----- From: Rebhan, Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:02 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: How can I capture a file's date to a property? Hi, -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:21 PM To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: How can I capture a file's date to a property? /* I've have found several tasks for copying and renaming files and directories, but no way to get the file's date-stamp. */ i would go via <script> i.e. with jruby = <project name="bla" default="main" basedir="."> <target name="depends"> <scriptdef name="filemod" language="ruby"> <attribute name="fname"/> <attribute name="prop"/> <![CDATA[ attr = $bsf.lookupBean("attributes") fname = attr.get("fname") prop = attr.get("prop") t=File.atime(fname) $project.setNewProperty "filename", fname $project.setNewProperty prop, t.strftime("%m.%d.%Y") ]]> </scriptdef> <filemod fname="y:/test.txt" prop="fmod"/> </target> <target name="main" depends="depends"> <echo> ${filename} last modified => ${fmod} </echo> </target> </project> see other time formatting possibilities = http://www.ruby.ch/ProgrammingRuby/htmlC/ref_c_time.html#strftime or with javascript = <scriptdef name="filemod" language="javascript"> <attribute name="fname"/> <attribute name="prop"/> <![CDATA[ fname = attributes.get("fname"); prop = attributes.get("prop"); f = new java.io.File(fname); date = new Date(f.lastModified()); project.setNewProperty("filename", f); project.setNewProperty(prop, date); ]]> </scriptdef> have a look at java.util.Date apidocs if you need other time formatting Regards, Gilbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]