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Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
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Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

by Steve Holzner
April 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 20m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Running Ant

Running Ant from the command-line is simple:

%ant [options] [target [target2 [target3] ...]]

Command-Line Options

options are one or more of the command-line options that begin with a hyphen, listed in Table 1-14; target, target2, etc., are the specific targets you want to run in the event you don't want to defer to the project element's default target.

Tip

Entering ant -help on the command line generates a list of command-line options.

Table 1-14. Ant command-line options

Name

Description

-buildfile file, or -f file, or -file file

Runs the build file specified by file.

-Dproperty=value

Sets a property called property with a value of value, and passes it to Ant.

-debug, -d

Prints debugging information.

-diagnostics

Prints diagnostics about Ant.

-emacs, -e

Creates plain, emacs-friendly logging information.

-find file, or -s file

Searches for the build file (named file) along the directory structure towards the root.

-help, -h

Prints help information.

-inputhandler class

Specifies the class that will handle user text input.

-keep-going, -k

Continues to execute targets even if prior targets fail. Only targets that do not depend on failed targets are attempted.

-l file, or -l file

Uses file to log to.

-lib path

Specifies the classpath on which to search for JARs and library classes.

-listener classname

Adds an instance of classname as a listener, which is alerted when build events occur (e.g., starting and stopping of the build process).

-logger classname

Specifies the class to ...

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