Ketan's Musings » jar-finder http://ketan.padegaonkar.name Where he blogs about his eclipse musings Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:24:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Finding a Class in a ton of jars http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/07/26/finding-a-class-in-a-ton-of-jars.html http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/07/26/finding-a-class-in-a-ton-of-jars.html#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:46:42 +0000 Ketan http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/07/26/finding-a-class-in-a-ton-of-jars.html This is how I do it. Create a script I call it findclass in some location on the path. /usr/local/bin is a good place, I prefer $HOME/bin. Remember to chmod this script to 755.

#!/bin/bash
find -iname "*.jar" | xargs -i unzip -l {} | less

In case you are new to less, here’s how you navigate:
1. To find a particular class say com.xyz.abc.MyClass, you type: 

/com.xyz.abc.MyClass

2. To find what jar contains this class, you type: 

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