is there a gradle way to filter this?

./gradlew dependencies --write-locks --scan | grep -e FAILED -e https

Filter what? Do you mean getting whether the build failed and what the scan url is?

that doesn't get whether the build failed, it tells me which dependencies failed and prints the scan url

Ah, I see, one moment.

even better if it gave me the dependency insight, perhaps reduced, but which project it came from

For getting scan url: https://docs.gradle.com/develocity/gradle-plugin/current/#capturing_the_build_scan_id_or_address

will the 2nd one replace the existing output by virtue of being implemented? or do I have to write something that acts exactly as dependencies does?

Oh, you want the output of dependencies, just filtered? Maybe your can configure the renderer of

dependencies

, I don't remember. Otherwise yeah, you would probably reprogram what that task does, which basically should be to get that instance and iterating over the tree

hmm... grep sounds easier 😉

If you want to just filter the output, probably

having a makefile on top of gradle... yay...