Using Environment Properties In Ant // thecrumb // Developer. Thinker. Tinkerer

Tinking around with Ant I found out you can reference system environment properties within your build file.

So in Windows for example you can run SET at the command line and get a long list of properties:

U:\set  ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users  ANT_HOME=D:\ant  APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\priestj\Application Data  

You can easily reference these in your build file - first set property environment to "env":

<property environment="env"/>  

Now we'll add some of our Windows system properties (note these are case sensitive!):

<echo>evn.ALLUSERSPROFILE:  ${env.ALLUSERSPROFILE}</echo>  <echo>evn.ANT_HOME:  ${env.ANT_HOME}</echo>  <echo>env.APPDATA: ${env.APPDATA}</echo>

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