Mastering Gradle

Gradle command Line arguments

Now that you have created the first working script, it is time to explore different command-line options supported by Gradle.

You have already seen the usage of -b option to specify a build script. We'll start with --help or -h or -? to list all the options available with the Gradle command line.

$ gradle -h
USAGE: gradle [option...] [task...]

-?, -h, --help        Shows this help message.
-a, --no-rebuild      Do not rebuild project dependencies.
-b, --build-file      Specifies the build file.
-c, --settings-file   Specifies the settings file.
--configure-on-demand   Only relevant projects are configured in this build run. This means faster build for large multi-project builds. [incubating]
--continue Continues task execution after a ...