where is ant installed on Mac OS X snow leopard by default?

Question

I don't have ANT_HOME set, so i want to find where the home directory of ant is. I'm using the version of ant that was installed by default on my OSX install.

Answer 1

If you run ant -diagnostics, it should tell you where the ant.home is

$ant -diagnostics 

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ANT PROPERTIES
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ant.version: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.2 compiled on July 8 2013
ant.java.version: 1.6
ant.core.lib: /opt/local/share/java/apache-ant/lib/ant.jar
ant.home: /opt/local/share/java/apache-ant 

Answer 2

Follow these instructions to find the location of any package:

whereis ant (replace 'ant' with whatever you're looking for)

On my machine, this reports:

/usr/bin/ant

so, I do:

ls -l /usr/bin/ant

on my machine this reports:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  22 Nov 30 17:09 /usr/bin/ant -> /usr/share/ant/bin/ant

so, I do :

ls -l /usr/share/ant 

and get:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  14 Nov 30 17:09 /usr/share/ant -> java/ant-1.8.1

from this I can surmise that ant is installed at /usr/share/ant/java/ant-1.8.1