Simple script to get a maven dependency tree without using maven's options which are hard to remember.

mvn-dep-tree.sh

#!/bin/bash
##########################################################
## Simple script to get maven dependency tree           ##
## @author Lee, SeongHyun (Kevin)                       ##
## @veraion 0.0.1 (2013-01-17)                          ##
##                                                      ##
## To change the option 'include' and 'output', change  ##
## the values of INCLUDE_NAME and OUTPUT_NAME           ##
## respectively.                                        ##
## e.g.) to change 'include' to 'inc' and 'output' to   ##
## 'out',                                               ##
## INCLUDE_NAME="inc"                                   ##
## OUTPUT_NAME="out"                                    ##
##########################################################

extra_options=""
TMP_IFS=$IFS
IFS="="
INCLUDE_NAME="include"
OUTPUT_NAME="output"
if [ -n "$1" ]
  then
  array1=( $1 )
  if [ "${array1[0]}" == $INCLUDE_NAME ]
    then
    extra_options="-Dincludes=${array1[1]}"
  elif [ "${array1[0]}" == $OUTPUT_NAME ]
    then
    extra_options="-DoutputFile=${array1[1]}"
  fi
fi

if [ -n "$2" ]
  then
  array2=( $2 )
  if [ "${array2[0]}" == $INCLUDE_NAME ]
    then
    extra_options="$extra_options -Dincludes=${array2[1]}"
  elif [ "${array2[0]}" == $OUTPUT_NAME ]
    then
    extra_options="$extra_options -DoutputFile=${array2[1]}"
  fi
fi
IFS=$TMP_IFS
echo -e "execute \"mvn dependency:tree $extra_options\"\n"
mvn dependency:tree $extra_options
exit

Add the following alias to your ~/.bashrc.

alias dep-tree='~/mvn-dep-tree.sh' 

Then you can run it like

$ dep-tree 

If you want to specify "-Dincludes" option, do this.

$ dep-tree include=something 

"-DoutputFile" can also be specified.

$ dep-tree output=~/Desktop/output.txt 

Or both can be

$ dep-tree include=something output=~/Desktop/output.txt