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Re: Now, Which Jar Did I Put That In?

Dave Feltenberger — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:01:16 GMT

Oops, just read the bottom of that: not looking for the linux command etc. But it's easy enough to remember, that you can tap it out in seconds whenever you need it.

Re: Now, Which Jar Did I Put That In?

Dave Feltenberger — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:56:41 GMT

If you're using cygwin or in Linux, you can also do this:

for n in *.jar; do grep -H "package.name.Class" $n; done

This will tell you which of the jars contain the classes.

Re: Now, Which Jar Did I Put That In?

Bobby Bissett — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:45:28 GMT

I ran into this enough in Java that I wrote an app to help out. It's a gui that lets you search recursively or just within a directory, switch back and forth between dirs, search for other file types, etc. You can grab it free from the "Documents and Files" section of https://jarsearch.dev.java.net/ if interested.

It ain't exactly pretty since we keep adding features ad hoc, but it works.

Re: Now, Which Jar Did I Put That In?

Brian Fox — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:57:16 GMT

We run into this often during ant->maven conversions and use an eclipse plugin: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/jarclassfinder

Re: Now, Which Jar Did I Put That In?

Ignacio Coloma — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:09:01 GMT

windows: open search file dialog -> filename=*.jar, with text=MyClass. Some tweaking of XP might be in order, to avoid the Index Server from filtering your results.
linux: grep MyClass *.jar */*.jar */*/*.jar
linux: grep MyClass `find . -name '*.jar'`

There are more (more accurate) commands, but these are simple and do the trick most of the time.