Where is my m2 folder on Mac OS X Mavericks

Question

I cant seem to find the local .m2 folder on Mac OS X mavericks. Ideally it should be at {user.home}/.m2 but I cant seem to find it.

Should I create it?

Answer 1

You can try searching for local .m2 repository by using the command in the project directory.

mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=settings.localRepository

your output will be similar to below and you can see local .m2 directory path as shown below: /Users/arai/.m2/repository

Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.7/commons-lang3-3.7.jar
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/net/sf/jtidy/jtidy/r938/jtidy-r938.jar (250 kB at 438 kB/s)
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.11/commons-codec-1.11.jar (335 kB at 530 kB/s)
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/jdom/jdom2/2.0.6/jdom2-2.0.6.jar (305 kB at 430 kB/s)
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.7/commons-lang3-3.7.jar (500 kB at 595 kB/s)
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/thoughtworks/xstream/xstream/1.4.11.1/xstream-1.4.11.1.jar (621 kB at 671 kB/s)
[INFO] No artifact parameter specified, using 'org.apache.maven:standalone-pom:pom:1' as project.
[INFO]
/Users/arai/.m2/repository
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[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
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[INFO] Total time: 3.540 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2019-01-23T13:57:54-05:00
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