Stephane, Oops... mind not on job. You are right. Access it as ${test.param}
Conor > -----Original Message----- > From: steff [mailto:steff]On Behalf Of Stephane > Sent: Sunday, 3 December 2000 15:28 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Parameters for tasks. > > > Hello Conor, > > your explanation sounds great but I am a bit confused : > > If you say > ant -Dtest.param=1 target > > Do you access ${ant.target} > or ${test.param} ?? > > for the latter, it seems rather intuitive, but the former one > is rather odd > . > What would be the value of ${ant.target } ? > > Thanks Conor, > your answer helped me anyway (I'll test it soon) > > > > Conor MacNeill wrote: > > > Stephane, > > > > You can define properties on the command line which you can > then use as > > attribute values in your ant tasks. > > > > So, something like this > > > > ant -Dtest.param=1 target > > > > and then use ${ant.target} to access the value. > > > > Conor > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: steff [mailto:steff]On Behalf Of Stephane > > > Sent: Sunday, 3 December 2000 4:06 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Parameters for tasks. > > > > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > is there a way to pass arguments to ant tasks ? > > > It would be pretty nice for exemple > > > if you want to give args to a "run" target to give them > on the command > > > line > > > of ant instead of creating many different targets for > each different > > > tasks. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > and excuse me if i ask stupid questions, > > > i am a yound user of ant, and yet mad of it. > > > > > > What a software you made ! > > > > > > > > > >