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<h2><a name="echo">Echo</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Echoes a message to the current loggers and listeners which
means <tt>System.out</tt> unless overridden. A <tt>level</tt>
can be specified, which controls at what logging level the message is
filtered at.
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The task can also echo to a file, in which case the option to append rather
than overwrite the file is available, and the <tt>level</tt> option is
ignored</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">message</td>
<td valign="top">the message to echo.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">Yes, unless data is included in a
character section within this element.</td>
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<td valign="top">file</td>
<td valign="top">the file to write the message to.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">append</td>
<td valign="top">Append to an existing file?</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No - default is false.</td>
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<td valign="top">level</td>
<td valign="top">Control the level at which this message is reported.
One of "error", "warning", "info", "verbose", "debug"</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No - default is "warning".</td>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre> <echo message="Hello, world"/></pre>
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<echo>This is a longer message stretching over
two lines.
</echo>
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<echo>
This is a longer message stretching over
three lines; the first line is a blank
</echo>
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As XML parsers are wont to do, the first newline in the text element
has been included in the text.
<pre><echo message="Deleting drive C:" level="debug"/></pre>
A message which only appears in <tt>-debug</tt> mode.
<pre><echo level="error">
Imminent failure in the antimatter containment facility.
Please withdraw to safe location at least 50km away.
</echo>
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A message which appears even in <tt>-quiet</tt> mode.
<pre><echo file="runner.csh" append="false">#\!/bin/tcsh
java-1.3.1 -mx1024m ${project.entrypoint} $$*
</echo></pre>
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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