Hello, Thanks for your reply. I wasn't sure if the mail should go to the dev list: I'm not sure it's as black and white as you seem to believe in terms of sending it to the user list. If it was an actual * bug * in Ant (which mind you, I wasn't sure of), then I believe that the dev list is in fact wholly appropriate, in order to determine if the bug has been reported before, or to get the developers' first hand experience (FWIW, I checked Bugzilla, and couldn't find anything reported).
Could you be a bit more clear with what you mention below? I'm not familiar with "apply", or what that means, not being an Ant guru as I'm sure you are. Or perhaps, if I post to the user list, then you'd be more likely to respond? Cheers, Chris On 11/8/06 10:34 PM, "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Nov 2006, Chris Mattmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> # ln -fs /path/to/test/testfiles/* /path/to/test/linkdir/ >> >> It appropriately creates 2 symlinks, one for each file, in the >> linkdir directory. However, when I try to run this command using >> Ant's exec task, I can't seem to get it to work. I end up getting a >> link within /path/to/test/linkdir/ to a file named "*" which points >> to /path/to/test/testfiles/*. Could you guys tell me what I am doing >> wrong? Is this a bug with Ant? Or the expected behavior? > > It is the expected behavior (and your question is one that should go > to the user instead of the dev list, BTW). > > Your Unix shell expands the * to all matching file before handing them > off to ln. Since Ant doesn't use the shell in between, ln "sees" the > * and not the files. > > I don't know why you think <exec> would be better than <symlink> in > this case, but if you want to go with the exec family, <apply> is your > best choice here. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
