A Maven dependency tree prettifier.
When developing Java applications with Maven, you eventually find yourself dealing with dependency problems. You may have multiple dependencies that bring in incompatible versions of libraries that cause problems. A nice way to see the dependencies in a project is to generate a Maven dependency tree by running mvn dependency:tree. The output is not very pretty though.
This is a small awk script to prettify the Maven dependency tree. It will turn the ascii tree from the crude form that Maven outputs into something a little prettier. The different columns in the dependencies will have nice colours applied to them. Also, the superfluous "[INFO] " at the start of each line is removed to save space.
This acts as shell alias. You have two ways of loading the command:
- You can copy the content of the file '.mvntree' into your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc file.
- You can load the file directly. Assuming you have placed '.mvntree' in your home folder, you can place the following in ~/.zshrc:
source $HOME/.mvntree
In ~/.bashrc:
if [ -f ~/.mvntree ]; then
. ~/.mvntree
fi
You can now use the command mvntree and enjoy the prettiness.
Testing can be done by editing the test.txt file and running __mvntree__ "cat test.txt"