Maven supports the MAVEN_ARGS environment variable.

I want to add the argument -Dsomeparam="-X -A" and run Maven.

But when I do this, it’s clear it’s trying to split the argument via spaces and fails:

Unable to parse command line options: Unrecognized option: -A"

Which means the quoting is not correct.

Simple reproducer:

#!/bin/bash

MAVEN_ARGS="-Dsomeparam="-X -A"" mvn --version