Error in Maven build: mvn.bat not recognized

Question

While trying to build a Java project under NetBeans (with an external Maven configured), I got the following error:

\"C:\\Users......\\bin\\mvn.bat\"\" is

Answer 1

To solve it:

1. Go to the Maven installation folder
2. Go to bin
3. Make sure you can see file extensions
4. Duplicate mvn.cmd and mvnDebug.cmd and rename those copies to have the extension .bat
5. Try building the project now

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