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If you use a task of type `JavaExec` it should work. If you run the final built artifact, it will of course not work, anymore.

You should most probably instead have a resource file, for example a properties file, with a placeholder, then configure the `processResources` task to `expand` that placeholder and at runtime read the version from that file.

whoops, I forgot to mention that I'm trying to have it available when I execute the artifact

Yeah, that's what I assumed and what my last paragraph is targeted at