how to find the jar file containing a class definition? [closed]

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(This is an improvement over the script I had in previous versions of the answer as it produces much cleaner output at the price of some awk special/ugly quoting.)

I’ve built a script (findinjars) which does just that.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
if [[ ($# -ne 1) && ($# -ne 2) ]]
then
    echo "usage is $0 <grep pattern to look for in 'jar tvf' output> [<top-of-dir-tree> or, if missing, current dir]"
else
    THING_TO_LOOKFOR="$1"
    DIR=${2:-.}
    if [ ! -d $DIR ]; then
        echo "directory [$DIR] does not exist";
        exit 1;
    fi
    find "$DIR" -iname \*.jar | while read f ; do (jar tf $f | awk '{print "'"$f"'" "  " $0}' | grep -i "$THING_TO_LOOKFOR") ; done
fi

you can then invoke it with:

$findinjars a.b.c.d.Class [directoryTreeRoot or, if missing, current dir]

or just

$findinjars partOfClassName [directoryTreeRoot or, if missing, current dir]

Dot characters in the fully qualified class name will be interpreted in the regexp sense of ‘any character’ but that’s not a big deal since this is a heuristics utility (that’s why it’s case-insensitive too BTW). Usually I don’t bother with the full class name and just type part of it.

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