How do I execute task "hello"?

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How do I execute the “hello” task?

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thufir@mordor:~/java$
thufir@mordor:~/java$
thufir@mordor:~/java$ gradle hello

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • What went wrong:
    Task ‘hello’ not found in root project ‘java’. Some candidates are: ‘help’.

  • Try:
    Run gradle tasks to get a list of available tasks. Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 46.385 secs
thufir@mordor:~/java$
thufir@mordor:~/java$ cat gradle.build
apply plugin: ‘java’

archiveBaseName = "HelloWorld"
version = “0.5”

task hello << {
println ‘hello, world’
}

jar {
manifest {
attributes(
‘Class-Path’: configurations.compile.collect { it.getName() }.join(’ ')
‘Main-Class’: ‘HelloWorld’
)
}
}
thufir@mordor:~/java$

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The default build script name is called build.gradle. Rename your gradle.build then it should work. Alternatively, you can execute the build by pointing to non-conventional build script names: gradle -b gradle.build hello.