Executing Shell Script through ant

Question

I have a shell script named Call.sh which internally calls other scripts (i.e. .sh) and is working fine for me. Now i want to execute Call.sh from ant utility. I have made an build.xml which invokes the .sh. But one of the scripts asks for input, but ant doesn't give the chance to me to give the input due to which further operations fails. Please find below codes

Build.xml

<project name="Sample" default="info">
<target name="info">
<exec executable="/bin/bash">
<arg value="/full path/Call.sh"/>
<arg value="/tmp"/>
</exec>
</target>
</project>

Call.sh

    #!/bin/bash
    echo "Begining the execution......"
    sleep 1
    sh ./input.sh
    sh ./AutomateCom.sh
    sh ./Clean.sh
    echo "*****_______*****_______"

input.sh

    #!/bin/bash

    echo "enter the Organization name"
    read Orgname
    echo "Orgname is : $Orgname"
    sed "s/000/$Orgname/g" Final.sql >> ExecuteID.sql
    echo "Organization name has been replaced with $Orgname"

when i run the ant: It runs continously....below is the o/p when i say ant

[root@krog2-rhel5-64 Work]# ant
Buildfile: /root/test/Work/build.xml

info:
     [exec] enter the Organization name
     [exec] Orgname is :
     [exec] Organization name has been replaced with

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
......................................

What i expect when i run ./input.sh,in same way ant should ask me for input

[root@krog2-rhel5-64 Work]# ./input.sh
enter the Organization name
**yak**
Orgname is : yak
Organization name has been replaced with yak
  However ant doesn't give me opportunity to prompt for the user input. Any suggestions.

Answer 1

Try specifying the complete path to the script in the ant target:

<target name="test">
  <exec executable="/bin/bash">
    <arg value="/complete/path/to/input.sh"/>
    <arg value="/tmp"/>
  </exec>
</target>

This is equivalent to issuing the following command in the shell:

/bin/bash /complete/path/to/input.sh /tmp

<arg value="..."/> denotes an argument. So you have 2 arguments to /bin/bash, path to script & /tmp. If your script doesn't make use of extra arguments passed to bin/bash, then those would be ignored.

If your script input.sh is located in /tmp, you can either say

  <exec executable="/bin/bash">
    <arg value="/tmp/input.sh"/>
  </exec>

or

  <exec dir="/tmp" executable="/bin/bash">
    <arg value="input.sh"/>
  </exec>