Question

From the exec doc:

executable the command to execute without any command line arguments.

But in the example it shows:

<exec dir="${src}" executable="cmd.exe" os="Windows 2000" output="dir.txt">  
  <arg line="/c dir"/>  
</exec>   

Isn’t this contradictory?
Since if I understand the example the /c dir is a command line argument to cmd.exe but as an executable it is not supposed to have command line arguments

Answer 1

It means the executable attribute should not contain any command line arguments. Instead they belong in the arg tags like in the example.