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Gaurav Agarwal
Gaurav Agarwal

Reputation: 19102

Difference between mvn and mvn3 command

I have latest version of maven installed which is 3.0.4. A test at command line with mvn -version results in confirming this.

For all my maven commands I am using mvn but on several occasion on the internet I have seen people using mvn3 instead what is the difference between the two commands and why I am unable to use mvn3?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1802

Answers (1)

Tomasz Nurkiewicz
Tomasz Nurkiewicz

Reputation: 340763

Seems like (according to How do I install Maven 3?), default installation of maven 3 on Ubuntu uses mvn3 symlink to mvn.

I can't find mvn3 command neither in 3.0.3 nor in 3.0.4. I believe mvn3 is only used to emphasize that maven 3 should be used as opposed to maven 2 (still popular). These two versions are significantly different so it's worth to make sure newer is used.

Upvotes: 4

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