Echoes a message to the current loggers and listeners which means System.out unless overridden. A level can be specified, which controls at what logging level the message is filtered at.
The task can also echo to a file, in which case the option to append rather than overwrite the file is available, and the level option is ignored
Attribute | Description | Required |
message | the message to echo. | Yes, unless data is included in a character section within this element. |
file | the file to write the message to. | No |
append | Append to an existing file? | No - default is false. |
level | Control the level at which this message is reported. One of "error", "warning", "info", "verbose", "debug" | No - default is "warning". |
<echo message="Hello, world"/>
<echo message="Embed a line break:${line.separator}"/>
<echo>Embed another:${line.separator}</echo>
<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
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