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

My problem is that -q is too quiet. I'm running maven under CI

With Maven 3.6.1 (April 2019), you now have an option to suppress the transfer progress when downloading/uploading in interactive mode.

mvn --no-transfer-progress ....

or in short:

mvn -ntp ... ....

That is what Ray proposed in the comments with MNG-6605 and PR 239.

Answer 2

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.)