On 24.09.2015 00:06, John R Pierce wrote: > 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. Mind you I only work with ant very rarely but what should work is this: /path/to/ant -buildfile /greenstone/gs3/build,xml -Dbasedir=/greenstone/gs3 Regards, Dennis