How do I find the latest version of an artifact from a maven repository

shell maven-2 ant artifactory
Pablojim picture Pablojim · Jul 29, 2009 · Viewed 18.8k times · Source

As part of an automated deployment I need a script to download the latest version of an artifact from our internal repository.

Ideally this script will be with ant or a unix shell script.

So for example:

I have myArtifact.war and it has versions 1.0 , 1.1 and 2.0 - I need the script given the correct group id and artifact id to retrieve version 2.0 from our maven repository (currently using artifactory).

Is there any easy way to do this?

Answer

Michael Tamm picture Michael Tamm · May 16, 2012

You can use the Maven Dependency Plugin goal get together with LATEST as version for your artifact:

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:get
    -DremoteRepositories=<URL_to_your_maven_repo>
    -Dartifact=<group_id>:<artifact_id>:LATEST
    -Dpackaging=jar
    -Ddest=<target_dir>/<artifact_name>.jar

Related questions

How to concatenate string variables in Bash

In PHP, strings are concatenated together as follows: $foo = "Hello"; $foo .= " World"; Here, $foo becomes "Hello World". How is this accomplished in Bash?

Read More
How to call an external command?

How do you call an external command (as if I'd typed it at the Unix shell or Windows command prompt) from within a Python script?

Read More
How can I check if a directory exists in a Bash shell script?

What command can be used to check if a directory exists or not, within a Bash shell script?

Read More