Linux Command Line System Property Issue

Hi Everyone,

I am having trouble passing in a value via the command line on bash in linux, but I have it working correctly on windows.

On the command line, if I pass in the following:
-DmavenArgLine="arg1 arg2"

The error on linux is: Unknown lifecycle phase "arg2"
Windows is able to interpret this correctly and show "arg1 arg2" in the output, verified by using the following plugin:

<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<echo>${mavenArgLine}</echo>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

My need is that the value of mavenArgLine has to be given from the command line as the value can differ from different environments. Is there a way to pass in the value of mavenArgLine in linux with spaces?

Thanks,
Phillip