Re: How to execute a command that reads from stdin

[Conor MacNeill]

Zsolt Koppany wrote:

Hi,

how can I execute a task from Ant that has to read from the stdin? I
mean like in shell "cat < in.lst". I have to start a program that
unfortunately does not understand a flag with a filename to read from.

I have just added the capability to the <exec> and <java> tasks to redirect input

<exec ... input="in.lst"/>

This will be part of Ant 1.6 - you can try it out from CVS or a nightly build. Of course prior to a 1.6 release, these features are subject to further development and change.

In the current version of Ant, you can execute a shell and redirect input in the command you give that shell. This example from Bug 3452 (Thanks David)

<exec executable="cmd" os="Windows 2000" output="log.txt">
<arg line="/c mysql &lt; init_db.sql>
</exec>
<exec executable="/bin/sh" os="Linux" output="log.txt">
<arg line="-c mysql &lt; init_db.sql>
</exec>

Conor


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