What are all of the Maven Command Line Options?

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I'm looking for the list of options for Maven 2.2 but cannot find it. If someone knows the location please post it. Thank you.

I found the following but I don't know enough of Maven to know which are and are not in 2.2. Version Maven 3.3.3 CLI Options Reference

2021-08-09 Updated for 3.8.1

https://maven.apache.org/ref/3.8.1/maven-embedder/cli.html

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Solution 1 - Java

Found this page today. Maven CLI Options Reference.

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Text version to make it easy to copy/paste Maven CLI Options Reference

Options >> Description

-am,--also-make	>>	If project list is specified, also build projects required by the list
-amd,--also-make-dependents	>>	If project list is specified, also build projects that depend on projects on the list
-B,--batch-mode	>>	Run in non-interactive (batch) mode (disables output color)
-b,--builder	>>	The id of the build strategy to use
-C,--strict-checksums	>>	Fail the build if checksums don't match
-c,--lax-checksums		>>	Warn if checksums don't match
-cpu,--check-plugin-updates	>>	Ineffective, only kept for backward compatibility
-D,--define		>>	Define a system property
-e,--errors		>>	Produce execution error messages
-emp,--encrypt-master-password	>>	Encrypt master security password
-ep,--encrypt-password	>>	Encrypt server password
-f,--file		>>	Force the use of an alternate POM file (or directory with pom.xml)
-fae,--fail-at-end	>>	Only fail the build afterwards; allow all non-impacted builds to continue
-ff,--fail-fast		>>	Stop at first failure in reactorized builds
-fn,--fail-never	>>	NEVER fail the build, regardless of project result
-gs,--global-settings	>>	Alternate path for the global settings file
-gt,--global-toolchains	>>	Alternate path for the global toolchains file
-h,--help		>>	Display help information
-l,--log-file	>>	Log file where all build output will go (disables output color)
-llr,--legacy-local-repository	>>	Use Maven 2 Legacy Local Repository behaviour, ie no use of _remote.repositories. Can also be activated by using -Dmaven.legacyLocalRepo=true
-N,--non-recursive		>>	Do not recurse into sub-projects
-npr,--no-plugin-registry	>>	Ineffective, only kept for backward compatibility
-npu,--no-plugin-updates	>>	Ineffective, only kept for backward compatibility
-nsu,--no-snapshot-updates	>>	Suppress SNAPSHOT updates
-ntp,--no-transfer-progress	>>	Do not display transfer progress when downloading or uploading
-o,--offline	>>	Work offline
-P,--activate-profiles	>>	Comma-delimited list of profiles to activate
-pl,--projects	>>	Comma-delimited list of specified reactor projects to build instead of all projects. A project can be specified by [groupId]:artifactId or by its relative path
-q,--quiet		>>	Quiet output - only show errors
-rf,--resume-from	>>	Resume reactor from specified project
-s,--settings		>>	Alternate path for the user settings file
-t,--toolchains		>>	Alternate path for the user toolchains file
-T,--threads		>>	Thread count, for instance 2.0C where C is core multiplied
-U,--update-snapshots	>>	Forces a check for missing releases and updated snapshots on remote repositories
-up,--update-plugins	>>	Ineffective, only kept for backward compatibility
-v,--version		>>	Display version information
-V,--show-version	>>	Display version information WITHOUT stopping build
-X,--debug		>>	Produce execution debug output

If you want to skip tests you can add the following to the command line.

-DskipTests

compiles the tests, but skips running them

-Dmaven.test.skip=true

skips compiling the tests and does not run them

Source maven clean install

Solution 2 - Java

If you have added the maven home path to the "PATH" environment variable, you can type in a terminal / cmd

mvn --help

If not, first add the maven bin path to the "PATH" variable:

Windows:

Go to System Properties -> Advanced -> Environment variables 

and there add the maven bin directory path at the end of the PATH variable.

Unix/Linux:

export PATH=/your_path/apache-maven-VERSION/bin:$PATH

Warning: Add the maven path to the PATH environment variable, don't replace the actual content of the PATH variable

Take a look to: https://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/maven-in-five-minutes.html

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