NetBeans 9 Nightlies

Wednesday, Nov 9, 2016 |

Perhaps I'm a bit of a glutton for punishment, but I have an odd addiction to nightly builds. In working on this book , I need to use NetBeans 9, which, of course, is not out yet. They are, however, publishing nightly builds. Being a command line guy at heart, I'd prefer not to have to go to the download page every time, so I did what any good geek would do: I wrote a script. It's not pretty, and it's not very fault tolerant, but it seems to work well enough. If you're a fellow addict, here you go:

#!/bin/bash

VERS=`curl -s http://bits.netbeans.org/netbeans/trunk/nightly/latest/js/build_info.js | grep BOUNCER_PRODUCT_PREFIX | cut -f 2 -d \"`
FILE=$VERS-javase.zip

cd ~/Downloads
if [ ! -e $FILE ] ; then
    wget http://bits.netbeans.org/netbeans/trunk/nightly/latest/zip/$FILE
    if [ -e $FILE ] ; then
        rm -rf netbeans
        unzip $FILE
    fi
fi