Listing of the directory by Ant script

Question

can we list directories of drives like c , d etc by Ant script.
If yes, please provide me the ant script code snippet.
Thanks

Answer 1

You can implement your own ANT tasks to do basically anything you want.
http://ant.apache.org/manual/develop.html
Something like this:
package anttasks;
import java.io.File;
public class DirListTask extends org.apache.tools.ant.Task
    private File dir;
    public void setDirectory(File dir)
         this.dir = dir;
    public void execute()
          throws org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException
         if(dir == null){
              throw new org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException("\"directory\" property is required!");
         File[] listing = dir.listFiles();
         if(listing != null){
              for(int i = 0; i < listing.length; i++){
                   System.out.println(listing.getName());
(typed without checking it... might contain typo mistakes)
In your ant script you can invoke your task like this:
<taskdef name="listtask" classname="anttasks.DirListTask"/>
<listtask directory="c:/"/>(the ant.jar needs to be in your classpath when compiling the task and the anttasks package needs to be in the classpath when running the script).