Monday, August 10, 2015

Extracting icons from Eclipse directory

I am always in need for icons that I want to use in my own plugins. Unfortunately hunting them down is quite a task that involves finding plugins that contain the icons, opening jar files and extracting the icons. To ease this task I wrote a little script that does this for you
#!/bin/bash
FILES=/path/to/eclipse/plugins/*jar
for f in $FILES
do
 echo "Processing $f file\n:" 
 jar xf $f icons 
done
After running this script an icon folder will be created with all the icons extracted from the plugins directory. I suppose next logical step would be to enhance this script to query Eclipse repository directly.

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