Can Maven be made less verbose?

Question

Maven spews out far too many lines of output to my taste (I like the Unix way: no news is good news).

I want to get rid of all [INFO] lines, but I couldn

Answer 1

If you only want to get rid of the [INFO] messages you also could do:

mvn ... | fgrep -v "[INFO]"

To suppress all outputs (except errors) you could redirect stdout to /dev/null with:

mvn ... 1>/dev/null

(This only works if you use bash (or similar shells) to run the Maven commands.)