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The mvn command documention appears when you type mvn -help. Besides the options, it takes 0 or more goals to run, and/or 0 or more life-cycle phases to run. If given a life cycle phase, such as "install", it runs all the previous phases in the life cycle, up to that point. If given a goal, such as "eclipse:eclipse", it may run life-cycle phases up to a specified point, depending on the goal implementation. For eclipse:eclipse, the documentation says it runs the phase "generate-resources" - meaning it runs all the life cycle phases up to that point.

If given multiple arguments, it does each one in sequence. e.g. mvn clean install or mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse

Coding dependency scopes: compile vs. provided

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