Error "The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory" after executing maven command

maven-3
Adrian picture Adrian · May 3, 2013 · Viewed 203.1k times · Source

I have a pom.xml in C:\Users\AArmijos\Desktop\Factura Electronica\MIyT\componentes-1.0.4\sources\pom.xml and I executed:

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=es.mityc.jumbo.adsi -DartifactId=xmlsec-1.4.2-ADSI -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=C:\Users\AArmijos\Desktop\Factura Electronica\MIyT\componentes-1.0.4\core\xmlsec-1.4.2-ADSI-1.0.jar

however it returned the error below:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.310s
[INFO] Finished at: Thu May 02 16:48:29 COT 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 2M/15M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM
 in this directory (C:\Users\AArmijos). Please verify you invoked Maven from the
 correct directory. -> [Help 1]

Can someone explain why it fails?

Answer

Adrian picture Adrian · May 3, 2013

This link helped: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11199865/1307104

I edit my command by adding quotes for every parameter like this:

mvn install:install-file "-DgroupId=org.mozilla" "-DartifactId=jss" "-Dversion=4.2.5" "-Dpackaging=jar" "-Dfile=C:\Users\AArmijos\workspace\componentes-1.0.4\deps\jss-4.2.5.jar"

It's worked.

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