Answer by David Robson for Ant task to run an Ant target only if a file exists?
Check Using Filename filters like DB_*/**/*.sqlHere is a variation to perform an action if one or more files exist corresponding to a wildcard filter. That is, you don't know the exact name of the...
View ArticleAnswer by Gangnus for Ant task to run an Ant target only if a file exists?
You can do it by ordering to do the operation with a list of files with names equal to the name(s) you need. It is much easier and direct than to create a special target. And you needn't any additional...
View ArticleAnswer by cmcginty for Ant task to run an Ant target only if a file exists?
I think its worth referencing this similar answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5288804/64313Here is a another quick solution. There are other variations possible on this using the <available>...
View ArticleAnswer by Jon Stafford for Ant task to run an Ant target only if a file exists?
Since Ant 1.8.0 there's apparently also resourceexistsFromhttp://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/conditions.htmlTests a resource for existance. sinceAnt 1.8.0The actual resource to test isspecified as a...
View ArticleAnswer by Adam for Ant task to run an Ant target only if a file exists?
This might make a little more sense from a coding perspective (available with ant-contrib: http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/):<target name="someTarget"><if><available...
View ArticleAnswer by toolkit for Ant task to run an Ant target only if a file exists?
Available and Condition<target name="check-abc"><available file="abc.txt" property="abc.present"/></target><target name="do-if-abc" depends="check-abc" if="abc.present">...
View ArticleAnt task to run an Ant target only if a file exists?
Is there an ANT Task that would execute a block only if a given file exists? I have the problem that I have a generic ant script that should do some special processing but only if a specific...
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