We have an ant script with the following task:
<exec executable="svn">
<arg line="export ${url} ${path} --username ${svn.username} --password ${svn.password}"/>
</exec>
This has worked just fine until one of our users created a password with three dollar signs in it, like "abcdef$$$", at which point ant things failed miserably.
How can I escape svn.password so it can take any value safely?
It may work better if you use separate arg elements for each argument rather than one line:
<exec executable="svn">
<arg value="export"/>
<arg value="${url}"/>
<arg value="${path}"/>
<arg value="--username"/>
<arg value="${svn.username}"/>
<arg value="--password"/>
<arg value="${svn.password}"/>
</exec>
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On windows, I am trying to execute two commands (.cmd and .exe) later requiring parameters,in one exec() task. This is to avoid using two shell ,however only first command is getting executed.
Following is the Ant snippet
<exec executable="cmd" dir="C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\IIB\10.0.0.7\server\bin\">
<arg value="/c mqsiprofile.cmd & C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\IIB\10.0.0.7\server\bin\mqsideploy.exe" />
<arg value="IIBNODE1" />
<arg value="-e" />
<arg value="default" />
<arg value="-a" />
<arg value="${bar.name}" />
</exec>
I also ran it without & and replacing "PROGRA~1" with "Program Files", still the same issue. Please suggest.
You can include both in a single target:
<target name="execute.this">
<exec dir="${testworkspace}\${moduleName}"
executable="cmd" failonerror="true"
output="${testworkspace}/${moduleName}/BuildConsole_TC${tc_num}.log"
resultproperty="execrc">
<arg value="/c echo Download Status is ${DownloadStatus}"/>
<exec dir="${testworkspace}\${moduleName}"
executable="cmd" failonerror="true"
output="${testworkspace}/${moduleName}/BuildConsole_TC${tc_num}.log"
resultproperty="execrc">
<arg value="/c Load.bat ${moduleName} ${Intapp} ${CcvStatus}"/>
</exec>
Or better yet, just use the <echo> task:
<echo message="/c echo Download Status is ${DownloadStatus}"/>
<exec dir="${testworkspace}\${moduleName}"
executable="cmd"
failonerror="true"
output="${testworkspace}/${moduleName}/BuildConsole_TC${tc_num}.log"
resultproperty="execrc">
<arg value="/c Load.bat ${moduleName} ${Intapp} ${CcvStatus}"/>
</exec>
If you need the output of the echo task in the same file, you can use the file parameter in the echo command, and the append parameter in the exec task.
Ref: How to run multiple commands from ant exec task
I have a build.xml for my ant in which I use
<exec executable="cmd">
<arg line = "start"/>
<arg value ="/c test3.bat"/>
</exec>
to start the given bat-file.
This works fine, but what I really want is that it opens the test3.bat in a new cmd-window. Is it possible to achieve this?
Works like that =
<exec executable="cmd">
<arg value="/c"/>
<arg value = "start"/>
<arg value ="test3.bat"/>
</exec>
In case oft doubt, use multiple <arg value=.../> for the parameters instead of <arg line=.../>,
works better.
I'm going to minify my js files by yuicomressor via ant, I wrote this:
<property name="concat-js-file-name" value="main.concat.js"/>
<property name="concat-js-file-path" value="${temp-folder}/js/${concat-js-file-name}"/>
<property name="yui-jar-path" value="lib/yuicompressor-2.4.7.jar"/>
<target name="minification" depends="concatation">
<echo>---Minification is started</echo>
<java jar="${yui-jar-path}" fork="true">
<arg value="${concat-js-file-path}"/>
<arg value="-o minified.js"/>
</java>
<echo>---Minification is finished successfully...</echo>
</target>
The problem is the output file is not generated!
Any idea?
You should set <java ... failonerror="true"/> and increase the noiselevel to see what's going on, means start your ant build with ant -f yourbuild.xml -debug
Actually, after some tries I found a solution:
I used <arg line="-o outputfile inputfile"/> instead, and it worked.
I suggest using <arg value="..."> instead of <arg line="...">. <arg value="..."> ensures that each command line argument has quotes around it, if necessary.
In the case of yui-compressor, the "-o" and "<file>" arguments should each go in their own <arg value="..."> elements:
<java jar="${yui-jar-path}" fork="true">
<arg value="-o"/>
<arg value="minified.js"/>
<arg value="${concat-js-file-path}"/>
</java>
This is a part of my ant script:
<target>
<exec executable="find" outputproperty="found">
<arg value="src/main/java"/>
<arg line="-name '*.java'"/>
</exec>
<exec executable="xgettext">
<arg value="-k_"/>
<arg line="-o gettext.pot"/>
<arg line="${found}"/>
</exec>
</target>
Doesn't work because xgettext receives a quoted list of files and treats this list as a single file name. How to solve it?
You'd need to separate out each file to a separate arg for that to work.
You can supply a list-of-files file to process to 'xgettext' using the --files-from option.
How about something like this: write the 'find' output to a file, then reload into 'xgettext':
<target>
<exec executable="find" outputproperty="found">
<arg value="src/main/java"/>
<arg line="-name '*.java'"/>
</exec>
<echo file="xgettext.files" message="${found}" />
<exec executable="xgettext">
<arg value="-k_"/>
<arg value="-o" />
<arg value="gettext.pot"/>
<arg value="--files-from=xgettext.files"/>
</exec>
</target>
Alternatively, here's a variation that assumes you have the Bourne Shell sh - if you have something else you can probably adapt. This pipes the 'find' output directly to 'xgettext':
<exec executable="sh">
<arg value="-c"/>
<arg value="find src/main/java -name '*.java' | xgettext -k_ -o gettext.pot -f -"/>
</exec>
Is it possible to run a command (.cmd file) from Ant? Would I need to write Java code for this?
<exec executable="cmd" os="Windows XP">
<arg value="/C"/>
<arg value="command to run"/>
</exec>
You can do this by using the exec task. From the ant exec documentation:
Note that .bat files cannot in general by executed directly. One normally needs to execute the command shell executable cmd using the /c switch.
So you would need to do something like:
<exec executable="cmd">
<arg value="/c"/>
<arg value="batchfile.cmd"/>
</exec>
Note that by doing this you have created a dependency of running your ant script in windows.
Adding to eradicus answer, you can also execute .bat, .cmd, ... from any directory with argument on your Window machine by
<target name="test">
<exec executable="cmd" dir="C:/Users/mydir/">
<arg value="/C" />
<arg value="myjob.bat arg1 arg2" />
</exec>
</target>