Gradle home cannot be found on Mac

Question

I've installed gradle on MAC using terminal.

brew install gradle

Gradle has been installed successfully.

gradle -v  ------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 3.3 ------------------------------------------------------------  Build time:   2017-01-03 15:31:04 UTC Revision:     075893a3d0798c0c1f322899b41ceca82e4e134b  Groovy:       2.4.7 Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.6 compiled on June 29 2015 JVM:          1.8.0_112 (Oracle Corporation 25.112-b16) OS:           Mac OS X 10.12.3 x86_64 

but I can not find gradle home.

echo $GRADLE_HOME [empty result] 

the first step to determine home directory is detect location of gradle instruction:

which gradle /usr/local/bin/gradle 

there is incomprehensible bash file.

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Any ideas how to detect gradle home directory via terminal?

Answer 1

You can use command:

brew info gradle 

As the result you will have something like this:

gradle: stable 4.0.1 Build system based on the Groovy language https://www.gradle.org/ /usr/local/Cellar/gradle/3.4 (181 files, 74.5MB) *   Built from source on 2017-02-24 at 15:01:34 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/gradle.rb ==> Requirements Required: java >= 1.7 ✔ ==> Options --with-all     Installs Javadoc, examples, and source in addition to the binaries 

Here, on the line 4 you can see the home path : /usr/local/Cellar/gradle/3.4

Answer 2

You can retrieve the path for GRADLE_HOME automatically using the following snippet in your .bashrc or .zshrc:

export GRADLE_HOME=$(brew info gradle | grep /usr/local/Cellar/gradle | awk '{print $1}') 

This is handy when the path to Gradle's home changes, when Gradle is updated.