<echo message="Hello, world"/> <echo>This is a longer message stretching over two lines. </echo> <echo> This is a longer message stretching over three lines; the first line is a blank </echo>
As XML parsers are wont to do, the first newline in the text element has been included in the text.
<echo message="Deleting drive C:" level="debug"/>A message which only appears in -debug mode.
<echo level="error"> Imminent failure in the antimatter containment facility. Please withdraw to safe location at least 50km away. </echo>A message which appears even in -quiet mode.
<echo file="runner.csh" append="false">#\!/bin/tcsh java-1.3.1 -mx1024m ${project.entrypoint} $$*Generate a shell script by echoing to a file. Note the use of a double $ symbol to stop Ant filtering out the single $ during variable expansion