Hi Billy, > I actually get a directory listing of the current directory in which > the pom is executing.
That sounds more like your shell is interpreting the asterisks as globs. Did you try it with single quotes instead of double quotes? -Curtis On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Billy Newman <newman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using maven 2. > > I am trying to pass a cron expression as a property in a maven build. > > mvn clean install -Dcron-expression="0 0 23 * * *" > > However it looks like the maven script is doing something funky with > the '*' characters before actually passing them off to java. I > actually get a directory listing of the current directory in which the > pom is executing. > > I have tried escaping to no avail. > > Anyone run into this before? > > Thanks. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >