Gradle equivalent to Maven's “copy-dependencies”?

Question

In Maven-land, anytime I want to simply pull down the transitive dependencies for a particular POM file, I just open a shell, navigate to where the POM is located, and run:<

Answer 1

the dependency configuration of compile is deprecated in gradle 4.x. You need to replace that with default. So the above code-snippet becomes:

dependencies {
  implementation 'com.google.inject:guice:4.0-beta5'
}
task copyDependencies(type: Copy) {
  from configurations.default
  into 'dependencies'
}