Setting system properties with “sbt run”

Question

I\'m using a pretty recent version of SBT (seems to be hard to figure out what the version is). I want to pass system properties to my application with sbt run

Answer 1

I think the best is to use the JAVA_OPTS environment variable:

#update the java options (maybe to keep previous options)
export JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -Dmyprop=x"
#now run without any extra option
sbt run