Maven: How do I install mvnsh?

Question

I suspect I'm going about this the wrong way entirely.

I heard about mvnsh, and wanted to give it a try, to decrease the lag when I build.

But I'm completely clueless about how one would do that. I'm still learning maven, and drawing false parallels between mvn and tools like gem, cabal, or cpan is still biting me, so I'm not sure what I need to do to install a command line tool like mvnsh.

It doesn't seem to make sense to stick it as a dependency in some arbitrary project's pom.xml.

I downloaded mvnsh-assembly-1.0.1.pom from the download page on the theory that that was involved so far, but so far, nothing I've tried has worked. mvn install -f mvnsh-assembly-1.0.1.pom downloaded a bunch of jars, then died. mvn artifact:install -f mvnsh-assembly-1.0.1.pom downloaded more jars, then died.

I really have no idea what I'm doing here. Should I even be using mvn to install mvnsh?

Answer 1

Just download the http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/sonatype/maven/shell/dist/mvnsh-assembly/1.0.1/mvnsh-assembly-1.0.1-bin.zip or the .tar.gz archive depends on you OS unpack it and put the bin folder of the distribution to you PATH after that you can start mvnsh .