testn wrote:
> My ant script uses tilde "~" in the path. It seems to work fine with my
> colleagues but it failed to work in my unix machine. When I copy files to
> ~/deploy, instead of creating a directory called deploy in my home
> directory, it actually creates "~/deploy" in my current directory instead. I
> know I should use "${user.home}", but does anyone have any idea why it
> happened?
yes. ~ is interpreted by the shell, and Ant has no shell. You cant use
~/something in Java code or even C/C++ apps.
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Steve Loughran
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