Question

I need to run ant script from a local machine which will invoke ant executions on remote machine.

So on the local ant file I have :

<target name="test">
     <sshexec host="${host}" username="${user}"
              password="${pwd}"  trust="yes"
              commandResource="(cd F:\execution; ant -f build.xml run)"/>
</target>

On remote machine I have build.xml` which contains

<target name="run">
    <mkdir dir ="F:\Testfolder"/>
</target>

When I execute the loca ant script I get the following error :

java.io.FileNotFoundException: (cd F:\execution; ant -f build.xml run) 
(The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect)

Why am I getting this error?

Answer 1

We deploy a build file named “remote-build.xml” to the path /root/project/remote-build.xml on the remote machine, and then we use

<sshexec host="${host}"
    username="${user}"
    password="${pwd}"
    trust="yes"
    command="ant -f /root/project/remote-build.xml the-targets-to-execute" />

to execute the target.