Ant in IDEA vs on the command line
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When I run a bild in IDEA, I don't see any echo'd output. I see it when run it from IDEA's terminal window, or the command line, but not when I run it in IDEA as intended.
Do I have something set up incorrectly in my build properties?
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Let me turn this question around: When running an Ant build from the cmd line or IDEA's terminal window, you can use echo to output status info, but IDEA's build window ignores it. What would I need to do in an Ant build to output a msg I can see when running from IDEA's build window?
Echo I think just uses stdout. Is there some other "channel" IDEA listens to and displays?
Switch to text output mode instead of tree view: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/messages-tool-window.html (Toggle tree/text mode).
Thank you Serge, I had discovered that option, and you're right, it is much closer to what I'd like.
Is there any equivalent to '@' in dos, so I can echo output without having the echo cmd itself show up in the output? These are more or less progress msgs for the person running the build.
Thanks again.
You can use -q option so that task names are not printed to the output:
I ran into this same problem. Claude led me here, however I think I found the solution on my own. I'm using IntelliJ 2026.1.1
In the Build File Properties window, I unchecked “Make build in background”