Use ant NoBannerLogger and -emacs options for better output

It can be hard to get useful data from a huge ant output file. So I like to use two options when running ant:

1. -logger org.apache.tools.ant.NoBannerLogger to strip out any empty targets.
2. -emacs to strip out leading [taskname]

Here is a comparison of running a simple build.xml target:

  <target name="test" depends="test2, test3, test4">
     <echo message="Running target test"/>
   </target>

   <target name="test2"/>
   <target name="test3"/>
   <target name="test4"/>

/home/javahowto > ant test

Buildfile: build.xml

test2:

test3:

test4:

test:
    [echo] Running target test

/home/javahowto > ant -logger org.apache.tools.ant.NoBannerLogger test

Buildfile: build.xml

test:
    [echo] Running target test

/home/javahowto > ant -emacs -logger org.apache.tools.ant.NoBannerLogger test

Buildfile: build.xml

test:
Running target test

Tags: java, ant, NoBannerLogger