In short, no. You can test it for yourself by writing a simple ant script. All
system environment variables have to be preceded by "env.", otherwise, in the
example below ${HOMEPATH} by itself is meaningless unless you have assigned a
prior value to it. But the minute it's preceded by "env." it knows you're
requesting something out of the system environment. If you comment out,
<property environment="env"/>, the script will work but ${env.HOMEPATH} will
just echo as itself w/o a value.
<project name="test" basedir="." default="test-target">
<target name="test-target">
<property environment="env"/>
<echo>User.Home=${env.HOMEPATH}</echo>
</target>
</project>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:56:32 -0800
> From: nagendra.r...@tejasoft.com
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: Reading environment variables in ant script directly
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to read OS environment variables directly in ant script
> without the line
>
> <property environment="evn"/>
>
> As ant is java and by default all the ant variables would be passed to JRE
> on each java invocation, I am looking for a way to get the value of the
> property variables directly.
>
> Why another line if I could avoid it. Also helps in managing few thing more
> smartly without this call each project.
>
>
> Regards,
> Raja Nagendra Kumar,
> C.T.O
> www.tejasoft.com
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