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Andrei Sfat
Andrei Sfat

Reputation: 8606

Append value in a file using maven

I have a value that I want to append at the end of a file, but I cannot figure which plugin to use.

Example: the value I want to append: "myValue"

file:

value1

value2

myValue # after append

I know I can do it using the antrun-plugin, but is it possible to do this with a maven plugin?

I've also looked over maven-shade-plugin, but from the few examples on their website I only saw doing append of 2 files instead of what I need (value to append to one file)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3004

Answers (3)

Shriram Shrikumar
Shriram Shrikumar

Reputation: 1155

You can use maven filtering to achieve what you are looking for.

Upvotes: 1

user944849
user944849

Reputation: 14951

The Codehaus gmaven-plugin is another option for tasks like these.

Upvotes: 0

nwinkler
nwinkler

Reputation: 54457

Sorry to say, but I think your best option really is the Ant plugin.

I shudder every time I have to use Ant in my pom.xml, but in some cases, it's the easiest option. Learn to embrace it, it will save you some headaches :-)

You could probably also write your own Maven plugin, but that would likely be more work.

One other option would be to create a shell script to append the value, and then call that using the maven-exec-plugin. You'll have to deal with different operating systems in that case, though.

Upvotes: 2

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