How can I disable the Maven Javadoc plugin from the command line

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In pom xml I have declaration like this       lt plugin gt           lt groupId gt org apache maven plugins lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt maven-javadoc-plugin lt  artifactId gt           lt executions gt               lt execution gt                   lt id gt attach-javadocs lt  id gt                   lt goals gt                       lt goal gt jar lt  goal gt                   lt  goals gt               lt  execution gt           lt  executions gt       lt  plugin gt    is there any way to turn that off from command line   I do know I can extract that into a profile  but that is not what I want

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The Javadoc generation can be skipped by setting the property maven javadoc skip to true  1   i e    -Dmaven javadoc skip true    and not false

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You can use the maven javadoc skip property to skip execution of the plugin  going by the Mojo s javadoc  You can specify the value as a Maven property    lt properties gt       lt maven javadoc skip gt true lt  maven javadoc skip gt   lt  properties gt    or as a command-line argument  -Dmaven javadoc skip true  to skip generation of the Javadocs

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It seems  that the simple way  -Dmaven javadoc skip true   does not work with the release-plugin  in this case you have to pass the parameter as an  argument   mvn release perform -Darguments  -Dmaven javadoc skip true

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Add to the release plugin config in the root-level pom xml     lt configuration gt       lt arguments gt -Dmaven javadoc skip true lt  arguments gt   lt  configuration gt

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For newbie Powershell users it is important to know that     is  a syntactic element of Powershell  so the switch has to be enclosed in double quotes   mvn clean install  -Dmaven javadoc skip true

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