Invoking Ant on Ubuntu terminal : same commands as used on Windows doesnt work

Hi all,

I just installed ubuntu 10.10 and am setting up my dev environment, but I'm having trouble with Ant...
I usually had a bunch of bat files on my desktop that I use to start different configurations of jboss as well as another bunch to build different projects.
The .bat files usually invoked Ant like:

But now doing the same thing in Ubuntu's terminal, ant gives me the following error:

And a similar error for any type of parameter that I try invoke it with ie. -v OR -logfile

Please help !! I'd like to set up my env quickly!!

is the xxx.properties file always in the current directory?
The standard way to do things like this is to provide a default behaviour in the ~/.bashrc file as an alias

oh, and it is a space, there is no equals '='

Thanks, it was the equals sign that was causing the problems....