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nkukhar
nkukhar

Reputation: 2025

Max function in Ant

I have directories that creating by following pattern build_yyyyMMdd_HHmmssSSS
i.e
build_20130304_112343142
build_20130402_102141121

I need to determinate latest created directory in ant build

Does ant has some kind of max function?

Or perhaps you can propose me some another idea?

Thansk

Upvotes: 1

Views: 62

Answers (2)

Rebse
Rebse

Reputation: 10377

Use resources, i.e. echoing the latest created directory :

sort by name :

<resources id="foobar">
 <!-- default last count="1" -->
 <last>
  <sort>
   <name/>
    <dirset dir="path/to/rootdir">
     <include name="build*" />
    </dirset>
  </sort>
 </last>
</resources>

<echo>${toString:foobar}</echo>

sort by date :

<resources id="foobar">
 <!-- default last count="1" -->
 <last>
  <sort>
   <date/>
    <dirset dir="path/to/rootdir">
     <include name="build*" />
    </dirset>
  </sort>
 </last>
</resources>

<echo>${toString:foobar}</echo>

Resource collections came with Ant 1.7 and may be used in conjunction with <copy>, <move> .. etc.

Upvotes: 2

paul
paul

Reputation: 22001

As your builds (and thus directory names) are effectively also ordered alphabetically then

ls -rd | tail -n 1

should give you the latest one.

Upvotes: 1

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