I really dislike how #Maven outputs text during a build. Gonna be extremely difficult to automate my next task because Maven's output is definitely not even meant for human eyes, let alone machine.

This is not easily parsed by machines (or even humans). Some version numbers are on the same line, others are on a separate line.

There's extraneous and unneeded info.

And there's no way to influence the appearance of the output. For example, the ps command as the -w flag to explicitly set wide text output mode.

#Maven #Java #Programming

@lattera

Also, have you tried faking the terminal width with

$ COLUMNS=99999 mavin …

(some tools, including ps(1) will consult this in a pipeline, and it's allowed me to fudge some otherwise yucky output)

@gumnos Just tried that, but no go.

@lattera

One other hack up my sleeve that might (but won't likely) work is to use

$ stty cols 99999 ; mavin …

which *might* also lie sufficiently to mavin.

That said, mavin just might be a dork and refuse to respect tty dimensions and force a presumed 80-column hard-coded limit.