[MNG-6346] ... was unexpected at this time when using -f option and path contains brackets

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.0, 3.5.2
• Fix Version/s: 3.6.1
• Component/s: Core
• Environment: Win10 & Win Server 2012 ; jdk1.8.0_151
• Assignee: Sylwester Lachiewicz
• Reporter: Patrik Jetzer
• Created: 22/Jan/18 08:10
• Updated: 09/Jan/19 00:37
• Resolved: 09/Jan/19 00:37

Description

Since maven version 3.50 and later when running a simple command with -f option the command fails reporting:
"\pom.xml was unexpected at this time."

command:
mvn -f C:\mmm(example)\pom.xml clean install

This must be related to changes in 3.5.x since it works as expected with version 3.3.9
Removing the brackets from the folder name resolves the issue.

Issue Links

• duplicates: MNG-6256 Maven script can break if "-f" path contains special characters
• is related to: MNG-6385 Windows mvn.cmd fail with incorrect command syntax.
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #228