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akash prasad
akash prasad

Reputation: 45

What does @ symbol indicates mainly in ant build xml file

I have something like this below in ant build.xml

 <exec executable="cmd.exe" failonerror="@{failonerror}" osfamily="windows" dir=".">
        <arg line="/c npm install"/>
    </exec>

Can someone help me to understand what does @ denotes here? I am not much familiar with this ant scripts. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 55

Answers (1)

MauroB
MauroB

Reputation: 580

Because properties can be expanded twice.

you can check it in the official doc http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#passing-cli-args

and here for a working example http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#propertyvalue-as-name-for-property

Upvotes: 1

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