Ant - Access environment variables

Here is how you can access your environment variables. Note: Environment variables are specific to your system.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<project basedir="." default="EnvironmentVariables" name="EnvironmentVariables">
 
    <target name="EnvironmentVariables">
        <property environment="my_env" />
        <echo>
            Here are sample environment variables in my operating system:
            ${my_env.PATH}
            ${my_env.COMPUTERNAME}
            ${my_env.ANT_HOME}
            ${my_env.JAVA_HOME}
        </echo>
    </target>
 
</project>

More details can be found at http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/property.html

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