Brothers and Sisters of this fine Monastery,

I recently coded up some Java classes to extend the functionality of the Task class within Ant. One of the tasks is a Perl script which allows for command line options. I created the execute() method within my task to call the Perl script. Since I am not done completely coding all the methods in the class yet, I am directly passing in the "-h" command line option to invoke help. Here is the code:

    public void execute() throws BuildException {
        Commandline commandLine = new Commandline();
        Project aProj = getProject();
        int result = 0;

        // build the command line from what we got the format is
        // perl foo.pl [options...]

        commandLine.setExecutable(getFooCommand());
        commandLine.createArgument().setValue(COMMAND_FOO);
        commandLine.createArgument().setValue("-h");

        // Check the command line options
        checkOptions(commandLine);

        // For debugging
        System.out.println(commandLine.toString());

        result = run(commandLine);
        if ( result != 0 ) {
            String msg = "Failed executing: " + commandLine.toString()
+;
            throw new BuildException(msg, location);
        }
    }
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When the script executes, none of the output from the Perl script is appearing on the screen. If I invoke the script from the command line:

C:\>perl foo.pl -h

it works fine and the output displays to the screen.

Does anyone know where my STDOUT went?

Thank you :)

P0w3rK!d

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