How to suppress Maven "Unable to find resource" messages?

Question

How can I tell Maven to suppress the "Unable to find resource" INFO messages for repositories in which it cannot find a dependency, but display those where it does find the dependency? That is, display the hits, but omit the misses since these drown out and obscure the hits.

For example, instead of this output:

Downloading: http://download.java.net/maven/2/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.5.8/slf4j-api-1.5.8.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:pom:1.5.8' in repository maven.java.net (http://download.java.net/maven/2)
Downloading: http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/mule/dependencies/maven2/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.5.8/slf4j-api-1.5.8.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:pom:1.5.8' in repository com.springsource.repository.bundles.release (http://w
ww.ibiblio.org/maven/mule/dependencies/maven2)
Downloading: http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.5.8/slf4j-api-1.5.8.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:pom:1.5.8' in repository com.springsource.repository.bundles.external (http://
repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external)
Downloading: http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.5.8/slf4j-api-1.5.8.pom

I would like Maven to simply output the following:

Downloading: http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.5.8/slf4j-api-1.5.8.pom
2K downloaded  (slf4j-api-1.5.8.pom)

Answer 1

Did you try changing proxy settings inside the settings.xml file?

Answer 2

I don't know what to do from inside maven, but you could always pipe the output to a process like grep or sed to remove the lines per pattern.