Get maven project version from the terminal

Very often, when working on projects, you need to get the version of the pom.xml application from the command line.
Here’s how you can do it:

Using help:evaluate

$ mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version | grep -e '^[^\[]'
1.0

1 2	$ mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version \| grep -e '^[^\[]' 1.0

$ mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:2.1.1:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version | grep -v '\['
1.0

1 2	$ mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:2.1.1:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version \| grep -v '\[' 1.0

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