Increment the maven version without using the plugin

Question

I want to increment SNAPSHOT version in pom.xml file without using maven release plugin. Current version is,

0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

expected version is,

0.1.1-Snapshot

How can I do this by accessing pom.xml file? I am working on jenkins maven project. can I use sed command for this?

Answer 1

I used this command to change the pom version and it is working

grep -ri "<version>" pom.xml |head -n 1 | sed -i 's/>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</>0.1.1- 
SNAPSHOT</g' pom.xml

Answer 2

I guess you could give xmlstarlet a try:

$ xmlstarlet ed -N mvn=http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 -u /mvn:project/mvn:version -v 0.1.1-Snapshot pom.xml

XMLStarlet is obviously XML-aware and as such it will be smarter if you move stuff around and will only update what you tell it to, since it uses XPath. For instance, having other <version> tags in dependencies and parent will be handled correctly as well.

Please be aware that "snapshot" should be in caps.

Link to its documentation: http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/docs.php