< and > mean redirection of STDIN and STDOUT from/to file. So I would have a look at nested <redirector>s.
Jan >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >Von: Jakob Fix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. November 2005 13:53 >An: Ant Users List >Betreff: apply task trouble for command using < and > > >Hello, > >I have the following command line (see [1] for jsmin): > > jsmin < bigfile.js > smallfile.js "prefix file with this comment" > >To do this for an entire directory I created this task: > ><target name="jsmin"> > <apply executable="jsmin.exe" failonerror="true" dest="${dir.out}"> > <arg value=" < "/> > <srcfile/> > <arg value=" > "/> > <targetfile/> > <arg value="${comment}"/> > <fileset dir="${dir.in}" includes="*.js"/> > <mapper type="identity"/> > </apply> ></target> > >This runs, but the result is not at all satisfactory: >- No output is produced, >- Only four lines are written to standard output as javascript >comments (as jsmin would do with everything after the outfile >argument). > >My suspicion is that the problem may be caused by the "<" and ">" >characters in the command line. Could it be that they are ignored? > >Thanks for any idea to get this resolved. > > >The -v output of this is: > >jsmin: > [apply] Current OS is Windows XP > [apply] DyApplication.js added as DyApplication.js doesn't exist. > [apply] Executing >'D:\Projects\dy\tests\JSMinAnt\jsmin.exe' with arguments: > [apply] ' < ' > [apply] 'D:\Projects\dy\tests\JSMinAnt\in\DyApplication.js' > [apply] ' > ' > [apply] 'D:\Projects\dy\tests\JSMinAnt\out\DyApplication.js' > [apply] 'prefix file with this comment' > [apply] > [apply] The ' characters around the executable and arguments are > [apply] not part of the command. > [apply] // < > [apply] // D:\Projects\dy\tests\JSMinAnt\in\DyApplication.js > [apply] // > > [apply] // D:\Projects\dy\tests\JSMinAnt\out\DyApplication.js > [apply] // prefix file with this comment > > [apply] Applied D:\Projects\dy\tests\JSMinAnt\jsmin.exe to >1 file and 0 directories. > > >-- >cheers, >Jakob. > >[1] http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For >additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
