You can use your tbuild.xml with -f $ ant -f tbuild.xml For parameter you can write inside your build file eg. ...="${yourFile}" ...
$ ant -f tbuild.xml -DyourFile=someFile.java rgds, --- On Sat, 11/1/08, Ben Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ben Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How to pass a file to an Ant build.xml process from command line? > To: "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org> > Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 2:52 AM > Normally I use Ant by clicking on a pre-defined build.xml > process inside e.g. Eclipse. > > However sometimes I would appreciate to have the chance to > call Ant and an Ant build.xml script > from command line and pass e.g. a file to it. Something > like: > > java org.apache.ant.executescript > D:\myproj\tbuild.xml > D:\myproj\test222\somefile.java > > Can I do this somehow? > > If yes: how exactly would the command lokk like and how > would I refer > to the passed file (=parameter) from inside build.xml? > > Ben > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]