Try as I might, I cannot find any way to configure the '--no-color' setting except as a command-line argument to Gradle. Other startup parameters can be tweaked in your build script, but logging is initialised very early and so misses any changes done in an init script or build script.

This is pretty unfortunate. Ideally, we'd support a system property to allow you to disable the color output.

Ideally I'd like a .gradle file in my home directory where I could set any command line options I want to set persistently. Thank you for checking on this for me

You can do this effectively with an `init.gradle` file in your home directory. Almost every command-line option can be set via this file: unfortunately the --no-color option doesn't work this way.

Thanks. I'm not how to set this to answered - even if it's not the answer I wished for.

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