Intellij not recognising environment variable in pom.xml

Question

In my maven project, I have a dependency on a jar that will be present in a certain location within system and not in a repository. So, I'm using SystemPath for the dependency in pom.xml. But the systemPath is dependent on a environment variable. But Intellij is not recognising the environment variable. I even tried setting the path using

<systemPath>${HOME}/dir1/dir2/abc.jar</systemPath>

But Intellij is not even recognising the $HOME variable. But if I give the absolute path like

<systemPath>/Users/myuser/dir1/dir2/abc.jar</systemPath>

Intellij is picking it up properly. Any idea how to resolve this?
Thanks

Answer 1

Environment Variables can be referred in pom.xml using 'env.' prefix.

Please refer to Maven properties

For example,

env.PATH

Contains the current PATH in which Maven is running. The PATH contains a list of directories used to locate executable scripts and programs.