This was functionality that I was seriously considering writing. I was
thinking of adding an option to the exec command to place the results
into a property instead of an output file. After a review of the exec
task code, it looks pretty easy to write an output handler that would do
the property update when the stream was closed.
Before I write this, has anyone else done it?
Thanks.
Peter Vogel wrote:
>
> Yet another case where the idea I just proposed (to set a property's
> value from the execution of a process) would be useful...
>
> On windows 2k at least, you could do this:
>
> <property environment="env"/>
> <property sysname="${env.COMPUTERNAME}"/>
>
> On unix you could maybe use ${env.HOSTNAME} or, more
> generally uname -n, but at the moment there's no convenient way
> to capture the output of a process in a property. If you have cygwin
> installed on your windows hosts then uname -n would work regardless
> of where you are, or you could use the os attribute of an exec
> task that had the added capability of putting its output into
> a property...
>
> -Peter
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nick Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:38 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: machine name
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there a way to determine the machine name
> > from ANT without writing a new task?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nick
> >
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