Download sources jar from maven

We use Maven, when Maven downloads dependencies it doesn't download sources, which I rely on when learn and debug programs....
I was expecting, for what seem a simple thing to me, a flag that I can add in maven's settings files or an option to pass to mvn command.... but I couldn't find the solution (or anything close to it). Don't get me wrong, there are solutions out there, but I just feel it is too much hassle for the task.

So I wrote a little script that go thru my repo and downloads any jar that doesn't have its respective sources :p

	#!/bin/bash
	prefix="http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2"
	header="/tmp/$0.header.$$"
	find . -name "*.jar" -and ! -name "*sources.jar" | grep -v "siteminder" | \
	while read j
	do
	source_jar=$(echo $j | sed -e's/.jar/-sources.jar/')
	if [ ! -e $source_jar ] ; then
	echo "Downloading ${source_jar}"
	pushd $(dirname $source_jar) >/dev/null 2>&1
	curl -D $header -O "${prefix}/${source_jar}" >/dev/null 2>&1
	popd >/dev/null 2>&1
	error=$(fgrep -c "404 Not Found" $header)
	if [ $error -ne 0 ] ; then
	echo "It does not exist..."
	rm $source_jar 2>/dev/null
	fi
	fi
	done
	rm $header

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