svn commit: r466878 - /ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html

[peterreilly]

Author: peterreilly
Date: Sun Oct 22 14:31:41 2006
New Revision: 466878

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=466878
Log:
bugzilla: 40803, doc use of cmd.exe /c for bat files better

Modified:
    ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html

Modified: ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html?view=diff&rev=466878&r1=466877&r2=466878
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--- ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html (original)
+++ ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html Sun Oct 22 14:31:41 2006
@@ -45,8 +45,22 @@
 the exact semantics of the call. In particular, if you do not put a file 
extension
 on the executable, only ".EXE" files are looked for, not ".COM", ".CMD" or 
other file
 types listed in the environment variable PATHEXT. That is only used by the 
shell.
-
 </p>
+  <p>
+    Note that <em>.bat</em> files cannot in general by executed directly.
+    One normally needs to execute the command shell executable <code>cmd</code>
+    using the <code>/c</code> switch.
+  </p>
+  <blockquote>
+<pre>
+&lt;target name="help"&gt;
+  &lt;exec executable="cmd"&gt;
+    &lt;arg value="/c"/&gt;
+    &lt;arg value="ant.bat"/&gt;
+    &lt;arg value="-p"/&gt;
+  &lt;/exec&gt;
+&lt;/target&gt;
+</pre></blockquote>
 
 <h4>Cygwin Users</h4>
 <p>In general the <code>&lt;exec&gt;</code> task will not understand paths 
such as /bin/sh for



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