How do I get rid of the Executing/Progress Bar when running a Gradle application?

Question

I am trying to build a console based application but whenver I run

./gradlew run

I get thr progress bar which looks like this:

Answer 1

I know your question is specific to using the gradle wrapper, but if you're using the Gradle Tooling API, you can control the color output via setColorOutput. Combined with the --quiet argument (set via withArguments), this results in plain-text output.