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Stefan Oehme commented on MNG-7131: ----------------------------------- Sorry for not getting back to you on this. This is not an important issue for me, I just stumbled upon it while exploring Maven's behavior and thought I'd report it. I won't have time to work on this. The description has all the info that anyone who wants to work on this will need though. > maven.config doesn't handle arguments with spaces in them > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-7131 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7131 > Project: Maven > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Command Line > Affects Versions: 3.6.3 > Reporter: Stefan Oehme > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 4.0.x-candidate > > > I tried putting a path with a space in the maven.config like so: > {code:java} > "-Dmy.path=/some/path with/a/space" > {code} > When asking for the my.path property inside Maven, I get the path with a > trailing quote > {code:java} > /some/path with/a/space" > {code} > The file is parsed by [splitting it by > whitespace|https://github.com/apache/maven/blob/c3cf29438e3d65d6ee5c5726f8611af99d9a649a/maven-embedder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java#L386]. > I suggest replacing that code with the much better > [CommandLineUtils.translateCommandline(argLine)|https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/blob/85a4a3c534752919dd97d757d4ef0fdb6d40eb8c/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/cli/CommandLineUtils.java#L412] -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)