On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Eric Fetzer <elstonk...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > > Note that I also tried: > <exec executable="sort" dir="."> > <arg value="-u"/> > <arg file="existingFile"/> > <arg value=">"/> > <arg file="newFile"/> > </exec> > > Which produced: sort: stat failed: >: No such file or directory
Strange, I'd have thought the XML parser would choke before you even got to running something. > is one of those reserved characters in XML, that must be replaced with a "character entity", ">" (w/o the quotes) in this case. Beside the above, you are confusing <exec> for a shell :). "cmd args files > out" is something the shell (sh, ksh, csh, tcsh, bash, zsh, etc...) interprets (i.e. parses), i.e. it runs "cmd args file" and redirects the output of that to a file calls "out". If you look at https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/exec.html, you'll see <exec> supports an 'output' attribute for the "Name of a file to which to write the output". So you likely want something like: <exec executable="sort" dir="." output="newFile"> <arg value="-u"/> <arg file="existingFile"/> </exec> There's also a more powerful way to redirect/filter/etc... using https://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/redirector.html but the above should do I think. --DD
