Something like this:

<path id="mystery.file.id">
    <fileset dir="logs">
        <include name="log.*.txt"/>
     </fileset.
<path>

<property name="mystery.file" refid="mystery.file.id"/>
<echo message="And the mystery file is ${mystery.file.id}"/>


On Jan 8, 2008 2:01 PM, me youdonwannaknow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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