Question

In my code am using something like

   <sshexec host="somehost"
username="dude"
password="yo"
command="ftp_download"/>

<ftp action="get" server="server_todownload" userid="user" password="aaa" remotedir="dowload/dir">
        <fileset dir="${installerdirectory}"><include name="${file_name}"/></fileset>
    </ftp>

In “command” of sshexec how i can pass the ftp action as parameters??
is there any example or document is there to get more knowledge??

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I guess you want to:

• ssh to another machine, and
• download something on that machine using ftp.

I think you misunderstood something. <sshexec> is a task that sshes to a machine and executes a command on that machine. The command it executes must exist on that machine. For example, your code:

<sshexec host="somehost" username="dude" password="yo" command="ftp_download"/>

There must be a command named ftp_download existing on somehost or your <sshexec> will fail. You can’t use an ant task in your local build file as a parameter because <sshexec> doesn’t work in this way at all.

Suggestion:

You can put the ftp task in an ant build file, and deploy it to the remote machine (you can use scp task) before sshexec. In sshexec‘s command, you write ant -f path_to_build_file ftp_target. You need to ensure that there is ant on that machine.