RE: Pass Quotes to arg line

2008-07-16 Thread Scot P. Floess
So, assuming one does this, how would one put quotes in place around params? On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Karr, David wrote: As another poster pointed out, the correct solution is to use multiple "arg"s with "value" attributes, not trying to figure out how to get through the various escaping layers wi

Re: Trouble executing python script in Unix

2008-07-16 Thread Keith Hughitt
Got it :) Somewhat round-about, but I wrote a small bash script that accepts two arguments and wraps the first one in <> and then executes the command: #!/bin/bash input=$1 output=$2 ./jsmin.py <$input>$output

RE: Pass Quotes to arg line

2008-07-16 Thread Karr, David
As another poster pointed out, the correct solution is to use multiple "arg"s with "value" attributes, not trying to figure out how to get through the various escaping layers with the "line" attribute. > -Original Message- > From: Peters, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, J

How to pass an unset property with inheritall=false

2008-07-16 Thread Knuplesch, Juergen
Hello, I want to use antcall together with inheritall=false: There are some targets that dont run, when paramsometimesunset is unset. If I pass the parameter like this and paramsometimesunset is unset, it is set in the called target. But I want it to be just the same value (

Re: Trouble executing python script in Unix

2008-07-16 Thread André Pilz
Hi, oh, the <|> problem. Today learned: Never ignore funny arguments. Maybe the output/input attributes of the task are helpful. In my cases I use a self-written ant task. Cheers, André Keith Hughitt schrieb: Hi André, Thanks for the suggestion. Python does find the script: Adding a print

Re: Trouble executing python script in Unix

2008-07-16 Thread Keith Hughitt
Hi André, Thanks for the suggestion. Python does find the script: Adding a print statement in the python script shows up during the build. Originally I thought that the issue might be due to the script not finding the input file. I now think, however, it may be due to how python interprets the ang

Re: Trouble executing python script in Unix

2008-07-16 Thread André Pilz
Seems like python doesn't find the script (because there is no error message). Possible solutions: - use absolute path for script location: - call script directly (like your working test.py): resolveexecutable="true"> I also note the double

RE: Pass Quotes to arg line

2008-07-16 Thread Peters, John
Thank you very much for the work around -Original Message- From: Scot P. Floess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:26 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Pass Quotes to arg line I have a solution for you that works :) Took me a little googling...but this should d

Re: Trouble executing python script in Unix

2008-07-16 Thread Keith Hughitt
Hi Luis, Thanks for the suggestion. I had tried using "ant -v" before, and also redirecting the output, but was not aware of the '-d' parameter. The script *should* result in a new file, "proj-all-min.js" being created. The file is only created when I run the script manually, however, and not when

Re: Pass Quotes to arg line

2008-07-16 Thread Scot P. Floess
I have a solution for you that works :) Took me a little googling...but this should do what you want... Please note, the Bash shell script below is entitled myscript.sh and "lives" next to the build.xml: #!/bin/bash echo "Command line params = [$*

Re: Pass Quotes to arg line

2008-07-16 Thread JimCant
The ant manual, of all things, says the following: It is highly recommended to avoid the line version when possible. Ant will try to split the command line in a way similar to what a (Unix) shell would do, but may create something that is v different from what you expect under some

RE: Pass Quotes to arg line

2008-07-16 Thread Peters, John
Thank you but that doesn't seem to work with the arg line command. -Original Message- From: Rebhan, Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:59 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Pass Quotes to arg line -Original Message- From: Lars Monsees [mailto:[EM

Re: Trouble executing python script in Unix

2008-07-16 Thread André Pilz
Hi, need more info to help you. Use "ant -d" to get the command line and the arguments how python is called. How exactly does it not work? Any error message? Cheers, André Keith Hughitt schrieb: Hi all, I've just recently started using Ant on Linux, and so far it has been really amazing. I

RE: How can I pass each filename of a fileset to a macrodef?

2008-07-16 Thread Lars Monsees
Thx, that works fine =) Usage examples (I couldn´t find them in ant-contrib) are here: http://www.loribel.com/info/memento/ant.html (french) Lars > ant-contrib sounds like what you want. > > HTH, > Matt > > --- Lars Monsees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I couldn´t find a bette

RE: failonerror and forking

2008-07-16 Thread Lars Monsees
Is there any helpful output when starting Ant with -v? > But the program already exits with an explicit error of 1. Any other > ideas? > > > > > > Gilbert Rebhan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > e> >

Re: failonerror and forking

2008-07-16 Thread rainer . luedtke
But the program already exits with an explicit error of 1. Any other ideas? Gilbert Rebhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Pass Quotes to arg line

2008-07-16 Thread Rebhan, Gilbert
-Original Message- From: Lars Monsees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:51 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: Pass Quotes to arg line /* > Hello, > I'm trying to pass quotes to the arg line for a parameter that has > spaces in it. > I've tried " but that didn't s

RE: Pass Quotes to arg line

2008-07-16 Thread Lars Monsees
Hi John, > Hello, > I'm trying to pass quotes to the arg line for a parameter that has > spaces in it. > I've tried " but that didn't seem to work. > Also tried "" \". > Any suggestions? I´ve had the same problem some time ago, s. http://tinyurl.com/66tvbv Unfortunately, I haven´t found a soluti