ant(1)

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so the big reveal first: ant is a Java based make tool 🫶 that's it, that's the whole vibe ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ant [OPTIONS] [TARGET [TARGET2 [TARGET3] ...]]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay bestie, so you know how make builds your projects? ant does that too, but it's written in Java, which means it runs on literally every platform that has a Java Virtual Machine 💅 that's giving universal 🌈 and honestly? It's a total icon for building Java software 👑

by default, ant grabs its info from build.xml, which is where all the targets are described 🍓

here's the options menu, no cap 💖

• -help, -h — the help menu for all the command line options 🎀
• -projecthelp, -p — shows project help info 🧚
• -version — shows the version info ✨
• -diagnostics — dumps info that's useful when you're trying to figure out or report a problem 🙈
• -quiet, -q — shh, extra quiet mode 🤫
• -silent, -S — the minimalist option: only task outputs and build failures get printed 💜
• -verbose, -v — extra chatty mode, tell me everything 🗣️
• -debug, -d — prints debugging info 🔥
• -emacs, -e — logging without the fancy adornments 🌿
• -lib <path> — tells ant where to search for jars and classes 🦋
• -logfile <file> — sends the log to the file you pick 📝
• -logger <classname> — uses the class you give it to handle logging 🪄
• -listener <classname> — adds an instance of that class as a project listener 👂
• -noinput — no interactive input allowed, we're not chatting with it mid-build 🙅‍♀️
• -buildfile, -file, -f <file> — uses the buildfile you specify instead of the default build.xml. this is basically ant's version of a Makefile, so iykyk 🫶
• -D<property>=<value> — sets the given property to that value 💅
• -keep-going, -k — runs every target that doesn't depend on a failed target. main character energy when one thing breaks but the rest keeps slaying 👑
• -propertyfile <name> — loads all properties from that file, but any -D properties win if there's a clash 💖
• -inputhandler <class> — the class that handles input requests 🎀
• -find, -s <file> — searches toward the root of the filesystem for the buildfile and uses it. it's like a treasure hunt 🗺️
• -nice <number> — sets the niceness of the main thread, from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest). 5 is the default, and it's giving balanced 🌈
• -nouserlib — runs ant without using the jar files from ${user.home}/.ant/lib 🌙
• -noclasspath — runs ant without using CLASSPATH 🧃
• -autoproxy — Java 5 or later only! uses the OS proxy settings 🌐
• -main <class> — overrides ant's normal entry point. big override energy 💥

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• make(1)
• mvn(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this page was written by Egon Willighagen <egonw@sci.kun.nl> 🫶

🌸 that's the whole tea, bestie! this page came from Debian GNU/Linux, dated Feb 2010 💖 stay buildin' and stay slaying ✨💅