Gradle Wrapper not responding to commands

Question

On my Linux machine in my root project directory I have the Gradle Wrapper

Project
 |
 + src
 |
 + gradlew

and when I run any command with gradlew there is no output, like for example when I print the version, there is no version printed

./gradlew --version

or when I check tasks, no tasks are displayed

./gradlew --tasks

or when I try to build the project, no out/ directory is created

./gradlew deploy

but when I click

Build > Build Project

in my Intellij IDE, the project does build, just not when I try to use Gradle from the command line.

So I have no idea what's going on with my gradle wrapper. Am I using the wrapper incorrectly?

Answer 1

My gradle wrapper which is just a Bash script, was empty ... somehow it's contents were deleted, so the script was running and nothing was happening. Good times.