Forgot to mention... we're using Ant 1.6.5, and adding ant-contrib or other similar addon's is not an option. (btw, my original mailing said I'd tried using 'pathconvert' and 'available' tasks, but those got stripped out due to my use of surrounding those names w/ > and <).
---------------------------------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: user@ant.apache.org > Subject: Load a file name into a property (using wildcards) > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:01:11 -0800 > > > My apologies if my searching the manual, faq(s), and mail archive didn't > return the answer to this question. > > I know there'll be a single file matching a search criteria, say, "dir > logs/log.*.txt". I want to get the file name as a property value -- but > w/out the wild card. > > My attempts using , , and filesets and filelists did not work. I suppose I > can use and the 'dir' or 'ls' commands, and parse their output. But that > seems like a kludge. Surely there is a better 'Ant' way of doing this. > > tia, > - Brad G. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Put your friends on the big screen with Windows Vista® + Windows Live™. > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/shop/specialoffers.mspx?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_CPC_MediaCtr_bigscreen_012008 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]