Name
apply
Synopsis
Executes a system command. As of Ant 1.4, the deprecated
execon
task is merely an alias for
apply
. Unlike the exec
task,
this task requires a nested <fileset>
specifying one or more files and directories as arguments to the
command.
Attributes
-
dest
(1.3, 1.4, File, *) The destination directory for any target files generated by the command.
-
dir
(1.3, 1.4, File, N) The working directory for the command.
-
executable
(1.3, 1.4, String, Y) The name of the command to execute. Does not include command-line arguments.
-
failonerror
(1.3, 1.4, boolean, N) If
true
, the build fails when the command returns anything other than 0. Defaults tofalse
.-
newenvironment
(1.3, 1.4, boolean, N) If
true
, do not propagate existing environment variables to the new process. Defaults tofalse
.-
os
(1.3, 1.4, String, N) A list of operating systems this task applies to. Executes only if the list contains a string matching the return value from
System.getProperty("os.name")
.-
output
(1.3, 1.4, File, N) A file to redirect the command output to.
-
outputproperty
(1.4, String, N) The name of a property that stores the command output.
-
parallel
(1.3, 1.4, boolean, N) If
true
, the command is executed once, passing all files as arguments. Iffalse
, the command is executed once for each file. Defaults tofalse
.-
skipemptyfilesets
(1.4, boolean, N) If
true
, do not execute the command if no source files are found, or if source files are up-to-date with respect to destination files. Defaults tofalse
.-
timeout
(1.3, ...
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