Command-Line Interface Basics

CLI is the primary method of inrecacting with Gradle. Executing Gradle on the command line conforms to the following structure:

gradle [taskName...] [--option-name...]

Options are allowed before and after task names:

gradle [--option-name...] [taskName...]

Multiple tasks should be separated by space:

gradle [taskName1 taskName2...] [--option-name...]

Options that enable behavior have long-form options with inverses specified with --no-:

gradle [...] --build-cache
gradle [...] --no-build-cache

Some long-form options have short-options equivalents:

gradle --help
gradle -h

Command-Line usage

To execute a task called taskName on the root project:

$ gradle :taskName

This will run the single task taskName and all of its dependencies.

To pass an option to a task, prefix the option with -- after the task name:

$ gradle taskName --exampleOption=exampleValue