Gradle build without tests

I want to execute gradle build without executing the unit tests. I tried:
gradle -Dskip.tests build


That doesn't seem to do anything. Is there some other command I could use?

You should use the -x command line argument which excludes any task.

Try:

gradle build -x test

Update:

The link in Peter's comment changed. Here is the diagram from the Gradle user's guide

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