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Chained Gradle task cannot read file generated by previous task

I have gradle task, taskA, which when run will generate a html file. Then taskB will try opening that file. When I chain these like:

./gradlew taskA taskB

Then taskB cannot see the generated file. Incidentally IntelliJ is open and does not see the file at the same time.

However if I run the commands separately, e.g.

./gradlew taskA
./gradlew taskB

Then taskB can see the file fine. Do you know how I might chain the commands with the effect of running them separately? I have tried using clean at the start of taskB but it does not help.

Solution

  • The way I got it to work was by cd'ing back into the current directory. This can be achieved with the following command, when you are in the correct directory:

    cd .

    This forces gradle to pick up any new files immediately.