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

I also underwent the same issue as Maven doesn't create the settings.xml file under .m2 folder. What I did was the following and it works smoothly without any issues.

Go to the location where you maven was unzipped.

Direct to following path,

\apache-maven-3.0.4\conf\ and copy the settings.xml file and paste it inside your .m2 folder.

Now create a maven project.