Yep, did it last night, posted the patch from 1.3 at about 11:30 PDT.
-Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry V. Streepy, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 7:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: machine name
>
>
> 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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