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<h2><a name="apply">Apply</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Executes a system command. When the <i>os</i> attribute is specified, then
the command is only executed when Ant is run on one of the specified operating
systems.</p>
<p>The files and/or directories of a number of <a
href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s are passed as arguments to the system
command. The timestamp of each source file is compared to the
timestamp of a target file which is defined by a nested <a
href="../CoreTypes/mapper.html">mapper</a> element. At least one fileset and exactly
one mapper element are required.</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">executable</td>
<td valign="top">the command to execute without any command line
arguments.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">dest</td>
<td valign="top">the directory where the target files will be placed.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">dir</td>
<td valign="top">the directory in which the command should be executed.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">os</td>
<td valign="top">list of Operating Systems on which the command may be
executed.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">output</td>
<td valign="top">the file to which the output of the command should be
redirected.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">timeout</td>
<td valign="top">Stop the command if it doesn't finish within the
specified time (given in milliseconds).</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">failonerror</td>
<td valign="top">Stop the buildprocess if the command exits with a
returncode other than 0.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">newenvironment</td>
<td valign="top">Do not propagate old environment when new environment
variables are specified.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>false</i></td>
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<td valign="top">parallel</td>
<td valign="top">Run the command only once, appending all files as
arguments. If false, command will be executed once for every file.
Defaults to false. </td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">type</td>
<td valign="top">One of <i>file</i>, <i>dir</i> or
<i>both</i>. If set to <i>file</i>, only the names of plain
files will be sent to the command. If set to <i>dir</i>, only
the names of directories are considered.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>file</i></td>
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<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
<h4>fileset</h4>
<p>You can use any number of nested <code><fileset></code>
elements to define the files for this task and refer to
<code><fileset></code>s defined elsewhere.</p>
<h4>arg</h4>
<p>Command line arguments should be specified as nested
<code><arg></code> elements. See <a
href="../using.html#arg">Command line arguments</a>.</p>
<h4>srcfile</h4>
<p>By default the file names of the source files will be added to the
end of the command line. If you need to place it somewhere different,
use a nested <code><srcfile></code> element between your
<code><arg></code> elements to mark the insertion point.</p>
<h4>targetfile</h4>
<p><code><targetfile></code> is similar to
<code><srcfile></code> and marks the position of the target
filename on the command line. If omitted, the target filenames will
not be added to the command line at all.</p>
<h4>env</h4>
<p>It is possible to specify environment variables to pass to the
system command via nested <code><env></code> elements. See the
description in the section about <a href="exec.html#env">exec</a></p>
<p>Please note that the environment of the current Ant process is
<b>not</b> passed to the system command if you specify variables using
<code><env></code>.</p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<blockquote><pre>
<apply executable="cc" dest="src/C" parallel="false">
<arg value="-c"/>
<arg value="-o"/>
<targetfile/>
<srcfile/>
<fileset dir="src/C" includes="*.c"/>
<mapper type="glob" from="*.c" to="*.o"/>
</apply>
</pre></blockquote>
<p>invokes <code>cc -c -o TARGETFILE SOURCEFILE</code> for each
<code>.c</code> file that is newer than the corresponding
<code>.o</code>, replacing TARGETFILE with the absolute filename of
the <code>.o</code> and SOURCEFILE with the absolute name of the
<code>.c</code> file.</p>
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