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| <h2><a name="apply">Apply/<i>ExecOn</i></a></h2> |
| <p><i>The name <code>execon</code> is deprecated and only kept for backwards |
| compatibility.</i></p> |
| <h3>Description</h3> |
| <p>Executes a system command. When the <i>os</i> attribute is specified, then |
| the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of the specified operating |
| systems.</p> |
| <p>The files and/or directories of a number of <a |
| href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s, <a |
| href="../CoreTypes/dirset.html">DirSet</a>s (<em>since Ant 1.6</em>) |
| or <a href="../CoreTypes/filelist.html">FileList</a>s (<em>since Ant |
| 1.6</em>) are passed as arguments to the system command.</p> |
| <p>If you specify a nested <a |
| href="../CoreTypes/mapper.html">mapper</a> and the <i>dest</i> attribute, |
| the timestamp of each source file is compared to the timestamp of a |
| target file which is defined by the nested mapper element and searched |
| for in the given dest.</p> |
| <p>At least one fileset or filelist is required, and you must not specify more than |
| one mapper.</p> |
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| <p>Note that you cannot interact with the forked program, the only way |
| to send input to it is via the input and inputstring attributes.</p> |
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| <h3>Parameters</h3> |
| <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td> |
| <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">executable</td> |
| <td valign="top">the command to execute without any command line |
| arguments.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">dest</td> |
| <td valign="top">the directory where the <apply> expects the target files will be placed by the |
| command, when it is executed. |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">Yes, if you specify a nested mapper</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">spawn</td> |
| <td valign="top">whether or not you want the commands to be spawned<br/> |
| Default is false.<br> |
| If you spawn a command, its output will not be logged by ant.<br/> |
| The input, output, error, and result property settings are not active when spawning a process.<br> |
| <em>since Ant 1.6</em> |
| </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">dir</td> |
| <td valign="top">the directory in which the command should be executed.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">relative</td> |
| <td valign="top">whether the filenames should be passed on the |
| command line as absolute or relative pathnames (relative to the |
| base directory of the corresponding fileset/list for source files or |
| the <i>dest</i> attribute for target files).</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>false</i></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">forwardslash</td> |
| <td valign="top">whether the file names should be passed |
| with forward slashes even if the operating system requires other |
| file separator. The option is ignored if the system file separator |
| is a forward slash.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>false</i></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">os</td> |
| <td valign="top">list of Operating Systems on which the command may be |
| executed.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">output</td> |
| <td valign="top">the file to which the output of the command |
| should be redirected. If the error stream is not also redirected |
| to a file or property, it will appear in this output.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">error</td> |
| <td valign="top">The file to which the standard error of the |
| command should be redirected. <em>since Ant 1.6</em></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">logError</td> |
| <td valign="top">This attribute is used when you wish to see error |
| output in Ant's log and you are redirecting output to a |
| file/property. The error output will not be included in the output |
| file/property. If you redirect error with the "error" or |
| "errorProperty" attributes, this will have no effect. |
| <em>since Ant 1.6</em></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">append</td> |
| <td valign="top">whether output should be appended to or overwrite |
| an existing file. Defaults to false. If you set parallel to |
| false, you will probably want to set this one to true.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">outputproperty</td> |
| <td valign="top">the name of a property in which the output of the |
| command should be stored. Unless the error stream is redirected |
| to a separate file or stream, this property will include the error |
| output.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">errorproperty</td> |
| <td valign="top">The name of a property in which the standard error of the |
| command should be stored. <em>since Ant 1.6</em></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">input</td> |
| <td valign="top">A file from which the executed command's standard |
| input is taken. This attribute is mutually exclusive with the |
| inputstring attribute. <em>since Ant 1.6</em></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">inputstring</td> |
| <td valign="top">A string which serves as the input stream for the |
| executed command. This attribute is mutually exclusive with the |
| input attribute. <em>since Ant 1.6</em></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">resultproperty</td> |
| <td valign="top">the name of a property in which the return code |
| of the command should be stored. Only of interest if |
| failonerror=false. If you set parallel to false, only the result |
| of the first execution will be stored.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">timeout</td> |
| <td valign="top">Stop the command if it doesn't finish within the |
| specified time (given in milliseconds).</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">failonerror</td> |
| <td valign="top">Stop the buildprocess if the command exits with a |
| returncode other than 0.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">failifexecutionfails</td> |
| <td valign="top">Stop the build if we can't start the program. |
| Defaults to true. </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">skipemptyfilesets</td> |
| <td valign="top">Don't run the command, if no source files have |
| been found or are newer than their corresponding target |
| files. Despite its name, this attribute applies to filelists as |
| well.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>false</i></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">parallel</td> |
| <td valign="top">Run the command only once, appending all files as |
| arguments. If false, command will be executed once for every file. |
| Defaults to false. </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">type</td> |
| <td valign="top">One of <i>file</i>, <i>dir</i> or |
| <i>both</i>. If set to <i>file</i>, only the names of plain |
| files will be sent to the command. If set to <i>dir</i>, only |
| the names of directories are considered.<br> |
| <strong>Note:</strong> The type attribute does not apply to |
| nested <i>dirset</i>s - <i>dirset</i>s always implicitly |
| assume type to be <i>dir</i>.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>file</i></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">newenvironment</td> |
| <td valign="top">Do not propagate old environment when new environment |
| variables are specified.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>false</i></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">vmlauncher</td> |
| <td valign="top">Run command using the Java VM's execution facilities |
| where available. If set to false the underlying OS's shell, |
| either directly or through the antRun scripts, will be used. |
| Under some operating systems, this gives access to facilities |
| not normally available through the VM including, under Windows, |
| being able to execute scripts, rather than their associated |
| interpreter. If you want to specify the name of the |
| executable as a relative path to the directory given by the |
| dir attribute, it may become necessary to set vmlauncher to |
| false as well.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>true</i></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top">resolveExecutable</td> |
| <td valign="top">When this attribute is true, the name of the |
| executable if resolved firstly against the project basedir and if |
| that does not exist, against the execution directory if |
| specified. On Unix systems, if you only want to allow execution of |
| commands in the user's path, set this to false. <em>since Ant |
| 1.6</em></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>false</i></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top">maxparallel</td> |
| <td valign="top">Limit the amount of parallelism by passing at |
| most this many sourcefiles at once. Set it to <= 0 for |
| unlimited. Defaults to unlimited. <em>Since Ant 1.6.</em></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">addsourcefile</td> |
| <td valign="top">Whether source file names should be added to the |
| command automatically. Defaults to <code>true</code>. |
| <em>Since Ant 1.6.</em></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">verbose</td> |
| <td valign="top">Whether to print a summary after execution or not. |
| Defaults to <code>false</code>. <em>Since Ant 1.6.</em></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| <h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3> |
| <h4>fileset</h4> |
| <p>You can use any number of nested <code><fileset></code> |
| elements to define the files for this task and refer to |
| <code><fileset></code>s defined elsewhere.</p> |
| <h4>filelist</h4> |
| <p><em>Since Ant 1.6</em></p> |
| <p>You can use any number of nested <code><filelist></code> |
| elements to define the files for this task and refer to |
| <code><filelist></code>s defined elsewhere.</p> |
| <h4>dirset</h4> |
| <p><em>Since Ant 1.6</em></p> |
| <p>You can use any number of nested <code><dirset></code> |
| elements to define the directories for this task and refer to |
| <code><dirset></code>s defined elsewhere.</p> |
| <h4>arg</h4> |
| <p>Command line arguments should be specified as nested |
| <code><arg></code> elements. See <a |
| href="../using.html#arg">Command line arguments</a>.</p> |
| <h4>srcfile</h4> |
| <p>By default the file names of the source files will be added to the |
| end of the command line (unless you set addsourcefile to |
| <code>false</code>). If you need to place it somewhere different, |
| use a nested <code><srcfile></code> element between your |
| <code><arg></code> elements to mark the insertion point.</p> |
| <h4>targetfile</h4> |
| <p><code><targetfile></code> is similar to |
| <code><srcfile></code> and marks the position of the target |
| filename on the command line. If omitted, the target filenames will |
| not be added to the command line at all. This element can only be |
| specified, if you also define a nested mapper and the <i>dest</i> |
| attribute.</p> |
| <h4>env</h4> |
| <p>It is possible to specify environment variables to pass to the |
| system command via nested <code><env></code> elements. See the |
| description in the section about <a href="exec.html#env">exec</a></p> |
| <h3>Examples</h3> |
| <blockquote><pre> |
| <apply executable="ls"> |
| <arg value="-l"/> |
| <fileset dir="/tmp"> |
| <patternset> |
| <exclude name="**/*.txt"/> |
| </patternset> |
| </fileset> |
| <fileset refid="other.files"/> |
| </apply> |
| </pre></blockquote> |
| <p>invokes <code>ls -l</code>, adding the absolute filenames of all |
| files below <code>/tmp</code> not ending in <code>.txt</code> and all |
| files of the FileSet with <code>id</code> <code>other.files</code> to |
| the command line.</p> |
| <blockquote><pre> |
| <apply executable="somecommand" parallel="false"> |
| <arg value="arg1"/> |
| <srcfile/> |
| <arg value="arg2"/> |
| <fileset dir="/tmp"/> |
| </apply> |
| </pre></blockquote> |
| <p>invokes <code>somecommand arg1 SOURCEFILENAME arg2</code> for each |
| file in <code>/tmp</code> replacing SOURCEFILENAME with the absolute |
| filename of each file in turn. If <code>parallel</code> had been set |
| to true, SOURCEFILENAME would be replaced with the absolute filenames |
| of all files separated by spaces.</p> |
| <blockquote><pre> |
| <apply executable="cc" dest="src/C" parallel="false"> |
| <arg value="-c"/> |
| <arg value="-o"/> |
| <targetfile/> |
| <srcfile/> |
| <fileset dir="src/C" includes="*.c"/> |
| <mapper type="glob" from="*.c" to="*.o"/> |
| </apply> |
| </pre></blockquote> |
| <p>invokes <code>cc -c -o TARGETFILE SOURCEFILE</code> for each |
| <code>.c</code> file that is newer than the corresponding |
| <code>.o</code>, replacing TARGETFILE with the absolute filename of |
| the <code>.o</code> and SOURCEFILE with the absolute name of the |
| <code>.c</code> file.</p> |
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