Tasks (with no dependency) not showing up

Dear,

I’m trying to have gradle show the tasks when I run the command

gradle tasks

These tasks do not have any dependency, but still are not showing up in the list of tasks.

Find below the version of Gradle installed:

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Gradle 3.3
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Build time:   2017-01-03 15:31:04 UTC
Revision:     075893a3d0798c0c1f322899b41ceca82e4e134b

Groovy:       2.4.7
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.6 compiled on June 29 2015
JVM:          1.8.0_66 (Oracle Corporation 25.66-b17)
OS:           Mac OS X 10.11.6 x86_64

These are petty simple tasks such as:

task hello {
        doLast {
        println "Hello World!"
    }
}

and this is the result that the comman gradle tasks yields:

:tasks

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All tasks runnable from root project
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Build Setup tasks
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init - Initializes a new Gradle build. [incubating]
wrapper - Generates Gradle wrapper files. [incubating]

Help tasks
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buildEnvironment - Displays all buildscript dependencies declared in root project '1.09-Exercise-ConfigureTaskDependencies'.
components - Displays the components produced by root project '1.09-Exercise-ConfigureTaskDependencies'. [incubating]
dependencies - Displays all dependencies declared in root project '1.09-Exercise-ConfigureTaskDependencies'.
dependencyInsight - Displays the insight into a specific dependency in root project '1.09-Exercise-ConfigureTaskDependencies'.
dependentComponents - Displays the dependent components of components in root project '1.09-Exercise-ConfigureTaskDependencies'. [incubating]
help - Displays a help message.
model - Displays the configuration model of root project '1.09-Exercise-ConfigureTaskDependencies'. [incubating]
projects - Displays the sub-projects of root project '1.09-Exercise-ConfigureTaskDependencies'.
properties - Displays the properties of root project '1.09-Exercise-ConfigureTaskDependencies'.
tasks - Displays the tasks runnable from root project '1.09-Exercise-ConfigureTaskDependencies'.

To see all tasks and more detail, run gradle tasks --all

To see more detail about a task, run gradle help --task <task>

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 1.024 secs

As you can see the hello task is not being shown.
Hope that you can show me what might be the issue here.

Regards,
AwoSwa

In order for the task to show up by default in the task report (without using --all), you need to assign the task to a group.

task xyz {
    group = 'something special'
    doLast { ... }
}

https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.diagnostics.TaskReportTask.html