Not able to run skip Cucumber tests on tags on command line. getting must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format <plugin-prefix > - spring-boot

Question

Any help on what should i do to run the command line for skipping Cucumber tags? i have tried various ways (https://www.programsbuzz.com/article/cucumber-skip-test-command-line)but each way i get the below error for the mvn command. Would i need to configure anything for cucumber to run the -Dcucumber.options flag? please help
XX#DESKTOP-R87G978 MINGW64 ~/Downloads/sample/task (main)
$ mvn -Dcucumber.options="--tags '#smoke'"
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 0.367 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2022-11-06T13:25:53Z
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[ERROR] No goals have been specified for this build. You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format <plugin-prefix>:<goal> or <plugin-group-id>:<plugin-artifact-id>[:<plugin-version>]:<goal>. Available lifecycle phases are: validate, initialize, generate-sources, process-sources, generate-resources, process-resources, compile, process-classes, generate-test-sources, process-test-sources, generate-test-resources, process-test-resources, test-compile, process-test-classes, test, prepare-package, package, pre-integration-test, integration-test, post-integration-test, verify, install, deploy, pre-clean, clean, post-clean, pre-site, site, post-site, site-deploy. -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/NoGoalSpecifiedException
This is my Pom.xml for build configuration
<build>
<testSourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/test/java/com/example/demo</testSourceDirectory>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0-M7</version>
<configuration>
<includes>
<include>**/*Test*.java</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${jacoco.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>jacoco-initialize</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>jacoco-site</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>report</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>production</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${vaadin.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>frontend</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-frontend</goal>
<goal>build-frontend</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<productionMode>true</productionMode>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Answer 1

The error message is pretty much self explanatory. While you have specified the option indeed you forgot to set the goal or a phase which are actually and instruction for the maven for what to do.
Like
mvn -Dcucumber.options="--tags '#smoke'" test where test is the phase.