De-activate a maven profile from command line

Question

I have a profile activated by default in my maven setting file ~/.m2/settings.xml.

Is it possible to deactivate it from the command lin

Answer 1

Starting with Maven 2.0.10, one or more profiles can be deactivated using the command line by prefixing their identifier with either the character '!' or '-' as shown below:

mvn groupId:artifactId:goal -P !profile-1,!profile-2

This can be used to deactivate profiles marked as activeByDefault or profiles that would otherwise be activated through their activation config. Refer Maven Doc

Because ! Exclamation mark is a special character for most of the command line tools, you might need to escape it refer here.