Re: <exec> kicking my butt with something very simple

It looks like you're trying to redirect output (with >), yes?
Remember that redirection is done by a shell, not by the 'sort'
command.

You need to exec sh or bash, or another shell that handles >.  Or,
handle the output yourself.

Make sense?

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On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Eric Fetzer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Note that I also tried:
>
>
> <exec executable="sort" dir=".">
>   <arg value="-u"/>
>   <arg file="existingFile"/>
>   <arg value=">"/>
>   <arg file="newFile"/>
> </exec>
>
> Which produced:  sort: stat failed: >: No such file or directory
>
> I'm using ant 1.7.1.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
> On Friday, December 5, 2014 11:24 AM, Eric Fetzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
> I've tried all I can figure out to try on a simple unix command in redhat.  I can run the command line and it works fine, but ant can't run it to save its life:
> <exec executable="sort" dir=".">
>   <arg value="-u"/>
>   <arg value="existingFile"/>
>   <arg value=">"/>
>   <arg value="newFile"/>
> </exec>
> I've tried putting all the args together, putting some of the args together...  If I run it like this, I get "sort: stat failed: >: No such file or directory.  If I put the "existingFile > newFile" in the same arg, I get "sort: stat failed existingFile > newFile: No such file or directory.  If I make the executable "bash" and use "sort" as the first argument, I get:  [exec] /bin/sort: /bin/sort: cannot execute binary file.  If I run it as bash and put all the arguments into a single arg value, I get: [exec] bash: sort -u existingFile > newFile: No such file or directory.
>
> This has got to be simple, please help!
>
> Thanks,
> Erc
>
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