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treatment of special characters by ant (escaping * -> \*)

           Summary: treatment of special characters by ant (escaping * ->
                    \*)
           Product: Ant
           Version: 1.5.3
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Core tasks
        AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


If I run the following task

<!-- NOTE: LANG=C required in order for the build to work with ssh (ssh sets
LANG=POSIX) -->
<exec executable="${linker.selected}" dir="${dist.dir}" failonerror="true">
  <arg line="${linker.args} *.o"/>
  <env key="LANG" value="C"/>
</exec>

Then the * in <arg line="${linker.args} *.o"/> gets changed from a special
character to a normal character i.e it gets 'escaped'. Now although I can work
around this behaviour by first constructing a fileset to select all objects
files (*.o) and then convert this to a space seperated list this problem of
escaping of special characters has other problems. If an object file in the list
of objects files resides in a directory which contain a space then it won't be
found by the operating system because ant seems to do some processing on the
space contained in the list

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