Why maven settings.xml file is not there?

Question

I installed maven plugin for eclipse and was able to use it only in eclipse. I want to be able to run maven commands from terminal so installed maven as explained in the bel

Answer 1

Installation of Maven doesn't create the settings.xml file. You have to create it on your own. Just put it in your .m2 directory where you expected it, see http://maven.apache.org/settings.html for reference. The m2eclipse plugin will use the same settings file as the command line.