macosantosx-leopard

where is ant installed on Mac OS X snow leopard by default?

I don't have ANT_HOME set, so i want to find where the home directory of ant is. I'm using the version of ant that was installed by default on my OSX install.

Solution

  • Follow these instructions to find the location of any package:

    whereis ant (replace 'ant' with whatever you're looking for)

    On my machine, this reports:

    /usr/bin/ant

    so, I do:

    ls -l /usr/bin/ant

    on my machine this reports:

    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  22 Nov 30 17:09 /usr/bin/ant -> /usr/share/ant/bin/ant

    so, I do :

    ls -l /usr/share/ant

    and get:

    lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  14 Nov 30 17:09 /usr/share/ant -> java/ant-1.8.1

    from this I can surmise that ant is installed at /usr/share/ant/java/ant-1.8.1