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Examples

  <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



Andrew Marlow 2003-07-08