Question

I have a task sshexec in an ant buildfile. This task shows the output of the command i wish to execute. My question is: how to not show the output?

here is my task:

<sshexec verbose="false" failonerror="true"
  trust="yes" host="${app.deploy.server}"
  username="${deploy.user}"
  command="find /home/software/public_html/${app.name} -name *.jar* -exec md5sum {} +"
  password="${deploy.password}"
  output="jarsAtServer.txt" outputproperty="trash" />

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can silence the output from sshexec task (or any other task) by using a custom logger:

import org.apache.tools.ant.*;
public class MuteTaskLogger extends DefaultLogger
{
    public void messageLogged(BuildEvent event)
    {
        Task task = event.getTask();
        if (task != null &&
            task.getTaskName().equals(event.getProject().getProperty("mute.task")))
        {
            return;
        }
        super.messageLogged(event);
    }
}

Compile with:

javac -cp ant.jar MuteTaskLogger.java

The task to mute is specified with the property “mute.task”:

ant -logger MuteTaskLogger -Dmute.task=sshexec -lib <folder-of-MuteTaskLogger-class>

You can tidy it up by putting MuteTaskLogger into one of the Ant library directories. The logger and mute.task properties can be added to the ANT_ARGS environment variable.