Apache Ant TasksEchoEchoDescriptionEchoes a message to the current loggers and listeners whichmeans System.out unless overridden. A levelcan be specified, which controls at what logging level the message isfiltered at. The task can also echo to a file, in which case the option to append ratherthan overwrite the file is available, and the level option isignored Parameters Attribute | Description | Required | message | the message to echo. | No. Text may also be included in a character section within this element. If neither is included a blank line will be emitted in the output. | file | the file to write the message to. | Optionally one of these may be specified. | output | the Resource to write the message to (see note). Since Apache Ant 1.8 | append | Append to an existing file (or open a new file / overwrite an existing file)? Default false. | No; ignored unless output indicates a filesystem destination. | level | Control the level at which this message is reported. One of "error", "warning", "info", "verbose", "debug" (decreasing order) | No - default is "warning". | encoding | encoding to use, default is ""; the local system encoding. since Ant 1.7 | No | force | Overwrite read-only destination files. since Ant 1.8.2 | No; defaults to false. | Examples<echo message="Hello, world"/> <echo message="Embed a line break:${line.separator}"/> <echo>Embed another:${line.separator}</echo> <echo>This is a longer message stretching overtwo lines.</echo> <echo>This is a longer message stretching overthree lines; the first line is a blank</echo> The newline immediately following the <echo> tag will be part of the output. Newlines in character data within the content of an element are not discarded by XML parsers. See W3C Recommendation 04 February 2004 / End of Line handling for more details.<echo message="Deleting drive C:" level="debug"/> A message which only appears in -debug mode.<echo level="error">Imminent failure in the antimatter containment facility.Please withdraw to safe location at least 50km away.</echo> A message which appears even in -quiet mode.<echo file="runner.csh" append="false">#!/bin/tcshjava-1.3.1 -mx1024m ${project.entrypoint} $$*</echo> Generate a shell script by echoing to a file.Note the use of a double $ symbol to stop Antfiltering out the single $ during variable expansionDepending on the loglevel Ant runs, messages are print out or silentlyignored: Ant-Statement | -quiet, -q | no statement | -verbose, -v | -debug, -d | <echo message="This is error message." level="error" /> | ok | ok | ok | ok | <echo message="This is warning message." /> | ok | ok | ok | ok | <echo message="This is warning message." level="warning" /> | ok | ok | ok | ok | <echo message="This is info message." level="info" /> | not logged | ok | ok | ok | <echo message="This is verbose message." level="verbose" /> | not logged | not logged | ok | ok | <echo message="This is debug message." level="debug" /> | not logged | not logged | not logged | ok | |