yeah, this is an option, but i need it all in a script because i need to do
non-ant things and i find it easier to do non-ant things in bash rather than
with the task. anyway, i did find the solution, which is to escape
newlines in the command output:
VAR=`cmd | sed 's/$/\\/g'` (though this actu
i am running ant from a bash script. i have a variable that contains command
output, including newlines. when i try to pass the variable to ant like
ant -Dbuild.log="${BUILD_LOG}"
newlines aren't preserved in the build.log property. do i need to massage
the output before i give it to ant as a pr