title: view content of directory made with ant xml
body: <p>I have an xml file with ant tasks.</p>
  
  <p>One of the tasks is</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;mkdir dir="someDirectory"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I view the contents of this directory?</p>
  
  <p>I tried </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;echo&gt;ls someDirectory&lt;/echo&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but this does not work</p>