Instead of doing external calls to Perl, Python, or grep, why not use
filterChains and filterReaders. You can use the string filter
ReplaceString in the TokenFilter. See <http://ant.apache.org/manual/
CoreTypes/filterchain.html#tokenfilter>.
On Aug 16, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Mike Stewart wrote:
You can use exec like:
<exec executable="perl " dir="." failonerror="false"
failifexecutionfails="false" vmlauncher="false">
<arg value="-p" />
<arg value="-e" />
<arg value=" 's/\\/\\\\/g'" />
<arg value="<your prop files>" />
</exec>
Might have to experiment with the single quotes not sure they are
required.
Mike S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/08/2007 19:04:25 >>>
perl ?? I don' t have perl installed....so how would the exec call
that
perl function???
On 8/9/07, Chun Ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If this works for you, maybe you can add an "exec" in your ant xml
file.
" perl -pi -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' <your prop files>"
-c
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Hi Friends,
I take a directory path input from the end-user and store it in a
property,for example if its windows,it stores it as:
log4j.location=C:\tomcat\logs
And that messes up everything.Because \t is interpreted as tab. So,
how
can
i change the backward slashes(windows convention) to forward
slashes(unix
convention) in the property before my build file is executed????
Or, how to escape them eg "\" to "\\"
I would appreciate your help.
Thanks
Mick
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