Questions tagged [maven-help-plugin]

I'm using maven-help-plugin one-liner to grab the project version in a bash script: currentVersion=`mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.2.0:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version -q -DforceStdout` It runs in a few seconds locally but…

Is there a way to use mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression to get the version number of a specific plugin? The compiler plugin for example?

Context: I am trying to chain multiple maven properties (connected with a '-') in the same expression to be outputted to the command line using a single line command (this will be a command to be executed in a Jenkins pipeline). I believe I should…

I would like use maven-help-plugin:3.2.0:evaluate to grab information from my pom project, but the result was not what I expected. Please read the edit at the end! I try to use it after checkout an existing git branch. Usually it works on most…