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When I use a Maven plugin that asks for user-interaction, I don't see questions until I write the answer. For instance with Maven Release Plugin I see:

...
[INFO] Checking dependencies and plugins for snapshots ...

And Maven is frozen... When I press 3 or 4 times return key, Maven continues working:

What is the release version for "<project_name>"? (<project_artifact_id>) <current_version>: : What is SCM release tag or label for "<project_name>"? (<project_artifact_id>) <release_tag>: : What is the new development version for "<project_name>"? (<project_artifact_id>) <new_snapshot_version>: : [INFO] Transforming '<project_name>'...

I think this is caused because there is no end line character at the end. Is there any solution? I can't imagine one :-(

[rehevkor5]

I'd love to see a solution for this, too. Someone also submitted a bug about it before they realized what was causing the issue: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-469

[rehevkor5]

There's another, similar problem: quotation of parameters will not work as expected.

For example, the command mvn scm:checkin "-Dmessage=Testing spaces" will be interpreted as if "spaces" were a goal. I tried various combinations of double and single quotes and escapes before I tried it without this alias and found the problem.

[simpsonjulian]

Hey, what if it just refused to do anything that it saw as related to the release plugin? The real solution is to implement ANSI colour in Maven itself, so I'm keen to keep some boundaries. :)

[rehevkor5]

It might not be worth the effort to solve issues like these. I'm not a Bash expert though: maybe the mistake would be obvious to someone who is. Whatever the case, the important thing is that people who are having trouble with parsing of parameters with spaces might be able to search Google and find this page that helps them figure it out.

Edit: see my #11