Ant's "-find " functionality in Maven 2

[Paul Michael Reilly <pm...@pajato.com>]

Flush with success at finding a solution to getting Maven 2 and Emacs
to peacefully co-exist when using Emacs's compile mode, I'm now going
to go for the gold and attempt to get Maven 2 to support the
equivalent of the Ant -find option.  Specifically, in Ant the -find
option will traverse (upwards) a file hierarchy looking for a named
build file.  For Maven 2, the behavior I'd like is for -find to search
up for the pom.xml file.  I hacked a script to do this (attached) but
it would be better to include the functionality more directly, and
less OS dependent, methinks.

-pmr


#!/bin/sh
export PATH=/usr/local/maven/bin:$PATH

dir=`pwd`

# Look for a pom.xml file using looping:
while [ "$dir" != "/" ]
do
  if [ -f $dir/pom.xml ]
  then
    break
  else
    dir=`dirname $dir`
  fi
done

if [ -f $dir/pom.xml ]
then
  cd $dir
  mvn $*
else
  echo No project file found!  Aborting.
fi
  


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