title: Error "The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory" after executing maven command
body: <p>I have a <code>pom.xml</code> in <code>C:\Users\AArmijos\Desktop\Factura Electronica\MIyT\componentes-1.0.4\sources\pom.xml</code> and I executed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=es.mityc.jumbo.adsi -DartifactId=xmlsec-1.4.2-ADSI -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=C:\Users\AArmijos\Desktop\Factura Electronica\MIyT\componentes-1.0.4\core\xmlsec-1.4.2-ADSI-1.0.jar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>however it returned the error below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 0.310s
  [INFO] Finished at: Thu May 02 16:48:29 COT 2013
  [INFO] Final Memory: 2M/15M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM
   in this directory (C:\Users\AArmijos). Please verify you invoked Maven from the
   correct directory. -&gt; [Help 1]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone explain why it fails?</p>