outputFile

src/it/projects/mdep-839-list/invoker.properties

@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
-invoker.goals = ${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}:${project.version}:list --Doutput-file="/tmp/temp.txt"
+invoker.goals = ${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}:${project.version}:list

src/it/projects/mdep-839-list/test.properties

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+# 
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+outputFile = classpath.txt
+

src/it/projects/mdep-839-list/verify.groovy

@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
-File file = new File( basedir, "/tmp/temp.txt" )
-assert file.exists()
+File file = new File( basedir, "classpath.txt" )
+assert file.exists() : "output file $file does not exist"
 
 String output = file.getText( "UTF-8" )
 assert output.contains( 'The following files have been resolved:')

src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/dependency/utils/DependencyUtil.java

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.OpenOption;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
@@ -229,7 +230,8 @@ public static synchronized void write(String string, File file, boolean append,
      */
     public static synchronized void write(String string, File file, boolean append, String encoding)
             throws IOException {
-        Files.createDirectories(file.getParentFile().toPath());
+        Path parent = Files.createDirectories(file.getParentFile().toPath());
+        System.err.println(parent.toAbsolutePath());
 
         OpenOption appendOption = append ? StandardOpenOption.APPEND : StandardOpenOption.TRUNCATE_EXISTING;