Currently my ant output is colorized by AnsiColorLogger. It works as expected, and now I want to customize the colors (default ones are too dim). I created a color file as specified, but have no idea how to pass the file name through. The documentation says
This file must be specified as the value of a system variable named
ant.logger.defaultsand passed as an argument using the-Doption to the java command that invokes the Ant application.
How to pass an argument to the java command if I just run on terminal with ant? I tried to pass
-Dant.logger.defaults=<my file path>
to ant but no luck. I also tried setting environment variable
ANT_OPTS='-Dant.logger.defaults=<my file path>'
but it didn't work either. In case it matters, I am with
I found my bug: my path to the file was ~/my-file but ~ in single quotes is not expanded. That simple.
(I forgot the fact that when I use ~ in terminal, it is expanded by the shell before passed to the program.)