Can I make the Ant copy task OS-specific?

Question

I have an Ant script that performs a copy operation using the \'copy\' task. It was written for Windows, and has a hardcoded C:\\ path as the \'todir\' argument. I see the \'exe

Answer 1

The previously posted suggestions of an OS specific variable will work, but many times you can simply omit the "C:" prefix and use forward slashes (Unix style) file paths and it will work on both Windows and Unix systems.

So, if you want to copy files to "C:/tmp" on Windows and "/tmp" on Unix, you could use something like:

If you do want/need to set a conditional path based on OS, it can be simplified as: