diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/filter.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/filter.html index b1e786695..ae5f5cdf7 100644 --- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/filter.html +++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/filter.html @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
Sets a token filter for this project or read multiple token filter from an input file and sets these as filters. Token filters are used by all tasks that perform file copying operations -through the Project commodity methods.
+through the Project commodity methods. See the warning +here before using.Note 1: the token string must not contain the separators chars (@).
Note 2: Either token and value attributes must be provided, or only the
filtersfile attribute.
Copyright © 2000-2002,2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights +
Copyright © 2000-2002, 2004-2006 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights Reserved.
+Consider the flexibility of Unix pipes. If you wanted, +for example, to copy just those lines that contained the +string blee from the first 10 lines of a text file 'foo' +(you wouldn't want to filter a binary file) +to a file 'bar', you would do something like:
cat foo|head -n10|grep blee > bar
@@ -1402,4 +1403,4 @@ This may be used as follows:
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