Question

I have an Ant file that has this as a path. TRying to find out what it might mean.

deploy.dir = ${basedir}/..

First there is nowhere I can find where ${basedir} is being set. Is this some variable type being set in another file on the server or does ${basedir} mean the same directory the build file is in?

Then what does /.. mean after it.

Thanks

Answer 1

http://ant.apache.org/manual/using.html will explain that ${basedir} is, by default, where you are sitting when you type ‘ant’.

.. means what it means on Windows and Linux in pathnames: one directory up.