I am working on a project on a virtual machine that is running on windows 10, and where I don't have the user access to system variables in GUI. Since, I need to use Maven I am wondering how can I set the java and maven variables with bash terminal?
I have tried to set the variable with this command:
export M2_HOME="/c/Program Files/apache-maven-3.6.3"
export M2="$M2_HOME/bin"
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m"
And then if ran mvn --version in the terminal, I got:
bash: mvn: command not found
If I ran printenv I see in the list that the variables were set:
M2_HOME=/c/Program Files/apache-maven-3.6.3
M2=/c/Program Files/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin
MAVEN_OPTS=-Xms256m -Xmx512m
But, if I close the terminal and open it again, then I don't see these variables again. What is the right way to set up Java and Maven env variables through bash on Windows?
You need to escape the string by surrounding it with quotes:
export M2_HOME="/c/Program Files/apache-maven-3.6.3"
EDIT:
To answer the question in the comments, note that you still need to add mvn's path to the $PATH variable in order to use it:
export PATH=${PATH}:${M2}