I believe anything you specify with the -D flag gets converted to a property.

Example:

ant -Djumbo=shrimp deployTarget

will set a property with name "jumbo" and value "shrimp".

You could then use that value somewhere in your build for the target directory.

K.C.

At 11:35 AM 1/30/02, you wrote:

>Guys,
>
>Is there any way I can pass command-line arguments to ant.
>
>Let me explain my problem:
>
>My directory structure is
>
>
>              |---Dir_1
>              |
>Base_Dir-----|---Dir_2
>              |
>              |---Dir_3
>
>
>I have my build.xml in the Base_Dir from where i wud be running ant.
>
>Now I wish to do something like
>
>ant deploy Dir_1
>
>ant deploy Dir_2
>
>which means i wud like to specify the directory as a command-line argument.
>
>Is this possible. Can someone give me examples.
>
>Pravin
>
>
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