what will happen if you put it under quotes '-Dprop1=${prop2}' ?
--sony
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Phillip Hellewell <ssh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I appreciate the two responses, but no one seems to be grasping what
> I'm talking about.
>
> Erase from your mind anything about %dos_env_vars% or $unix_env_vars.
> My question has exactly 0 to do with env vars.
>
> My question is about maven properties. In a pom file I can set a
> property to the value of another property by writing
> <prop1>${prop2}<prop1>, or if I want to set it to the literal value
> "${prop2}" I can write <prop1>$${prop2}<prop1>. The extra $ escapes
> it and keeps it from getting interpolated.
>
> However, on the command-line, I cannot find any way to accomplish the
> same thing. If I write mvn blah -Dprop1=${prop2} Maven sets prop1 to
> null. If I write mvn blah -Dprop1=$${prop2} it sets prop1 to $null.
> The only way I have found to keep it from interpolating is by
> appending text.
>
> Is this by design or a bug? I'd say it is a bug because if it's going
> to interpolate at all it ought to be consistent and should work the
> same way as when inside a pom file.
>
> Phillip
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Sony Antony <sony.ant...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I think %myvar2% will result in windows shell doing teh substitution
> > I dont think maven will use system variables set using -D as pom
> variables (
> > maybe I m wrong )
> > --sony
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Phillip Hellewell <ssh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> This is on Windows from a command prompt, not Linux.
> >>
> >> Phillip
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Phillip Hellewell wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Oh, I just thought of something shorter that will work:
> >> >>
> >> >> -Dmyvar1=c:\test\${myvar2}\.
> >> >>
> >> >> Still seems kinda crazy though. Anyone want to shed some light on
> why
> >> >> it works this way? This is with Maven 3.0.1.
> >> >
> >> > Maybe you should have a look into the bash manual instead ?
> >> >
> >> > - Jörg
> >> >
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