When I execute mvn help:effective-pom it also outputs [INFO] ... to stdout. Surpressing it via -q outputs nothing at all when dealing with correct files so
I want to pipe the effective pom into xmlstarlet to get the effective properties but as the output isn’t a valid xml it fails.
A request for my usecase was closed as a wontfix (at least to my understanding) at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPH-23 .
Use output property: