Using command line to tell gradle to download all the source jars

Question

Looking at how to tell gradle to download all the source jars and How can I force gradle to redownload dependencies?, I wonder is there a way to tell gradle to download all the source jars from command line (without touching .gradle files)

Answer 1

To download/copy jars and pom files to a folder see this gist

To download/copy sources too see this answer (this could be adapted to include javadocs too)

If you don't want to edit the build.gradle you can use an init-script to add a task to each project.

Eg dependency-download.gradle

allprojects { Project p ->
    p.tasks.add('downloadDependencies', DownloadDependenciesTask)
} as Action<Project>

class DownloadDependenciesTask extends DefaultTask
    // TODO implement
}

Then from command line

gradle --init-script dependency-download.gradle downloadDependencies