I use ant scripts on the Linux servers at my company to do what you describe, plus much more. I am still on version 1.7.0 and use the ant contrib library version 0.6 which has some extremely helpful tasks.
Budd A. McNish Office: 813-289-1000 ext.2352 Mobile: 813-373-0329 -----Original Message----- From: Mark Lybarger [mailto:mlybar...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:36 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: using ant for non build tasks hi, i'm putting together a simple business "flow" process. some zip files are pulled from a vendor. i need a process to do the following, archive the input, unzip the zip files, and execute some transformation on some of the data. currently, it's on a windows server, but we have linux servers in our environment too. i was thinking of using an ant script to handle/drive most of this execution. as ant is primarily using for building (java appliations), does anyone see issues with using ant to drive this file processing and manipulation? thoughts/ideas are very welcome! thanks, -mark- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail at the address shown.This email transmission may contain confidential information.This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity to whom it is intended even if addressed incorrectly. Please delete it from your files if you are not the intended recipient. Thank you for your compliance. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
