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

Question

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.

Answer 1

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