Checking Maven Version

Shorter

mvn -v

or

mvn --version

Output:

Apache Maven 3.0.5 (...)
Maven home: ...
Java version: 1.8.0_60, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: ...
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 7", version: "6.1", arch: "amd64", family: "dos"

The other command (mvn -version) works because it starts with mvn -v.

You can also try mvn -v123 and you’ll get the same output.

Details:

mvn -h

or

mvn --help

Output:

...
-V,--show-version                      Display version information
                                       WITHOUT stopping build
-v,--version                           Display version information

Command is not recognized

Probably you are in one of the following 2 situations:

1. You didn’t add the Maven to the Path
   (run ECHO.%PATH:;= & ECHO.% in cmd to see if you are in this situation).
   • go to Control Panel\User Accounts\User Accounts
     (or click on your photo from the start menu)
   • click Change my environment variables
   • click on New… and add:
     • M2_HOME=<your_path>
     • MAVEN_HOME=%M2_HOME%
     • MAVEN_BIN=%M2_HOME%\bin
   • click on Edit… and add the ;%MAVEN_BIN% at the end of the Path
2. You added it to the Path, but you didn’t open a new command prompt.
   • open a new command prompt, because the environment variables are not updated automatically