Question

I have an Ant script that performs a copy operation using the ‘copy’ task. It was written for Windows, and has a hardcoded C:\ path as the ‘todir’ argument. I see the ‘exec’ task has an OS argument, is there a similar way to branch a copy based on OS?

Answer 1

I would recommend putting the path in a property, then setting the property conditionally based on the current OS.

<condition property='foo.path' value='C:\Foo\Dir'>    <os family='windows'/> </condition> <condition property='foo.path' value='/home/foo/dir'>    <os family='unix'/> </condition>  <fail unless='foo.path'>No foo.path set for this OS!</fail> 

As a side benefit, once it is in a property you can override it without editing the Ant script.