On 9/23/2015 2:58 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > 1.) why 'cd /greenstone/gs3 && ant start' when you could just run > '/greenstone/gs3/ant start'. thats *not* equivalent, unless ant is in /greenstone/gs3 *and* . is in the path, and even then, ant looks for build.xml in the current path when its invoked, so the cd /path/to/build/ is appropriate. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz