Gradle Effective Implementations Guide - Second Edition

Command-line options

The gradle command is used to execute a build. This command accepts several command-line options. We know the --quiet (or -q) option to reduce the output of a build. If we use the --help (or -h or -?) option, we see the complete list of options, as follows:

$ gradle --help
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]
--console Specifies which type of console output to generate. Values are 'plain', 'auto' ...