Erik: I have a file which is already picking up all the variable definitions from the Environment plus some other properties defined in a common.properties file. Everything is OK. Now we would like to grab inside Ant additional environment variables that will be defined, depending on certain conditions, by running a shell script or batch file (the must work both in UNIX and Windows ). How can I, inside an Ant target, run a shell script or batch file and get as Ant properties the new Environment variables defined inside the shell script or batch file?. I can run the script only after Ant has been called because chooses    More>>