Question

In ant you can do something like:

<property name='version' value='${some.fake.version}'  <shellscript shell='bash' dir='${build.dir}'>     echo 'some shell cmds'    df -h    ls *    svn export http://svn.org/somedir               </shellscript> 

Okay, that shell script doesn’t do anything, I know, but how would I the property ‘version’ from within that shellscript?

I know you can do all of the above in Java scripting which is better than most uses, but in the real script I’m doing a ton of svn commands which I’ll have to shell out for anyway.

Answer 1

According to the shellscript documentation:

Embedded ant properties will be converted.

So you can use the ${variable} notation:

<shellscript shell='bash' dir='${build.dir}'>     echo 'Version: ${version}' </shellscript>