Build and Install with build.sh
The commands you’ve been typing in your terminal window can also be saved into a file; that way you can run them over and over again without having to retype them each time. We call this a shell script, and it’s another way to program the computer.
Building a plugin is only a little more complicated than compiling a single Java file as we did last chapter, but even so, it involves a lot of commands we don’t want to have to type out every time.
To make it easier, I’ve made a shell script for you named build.sh that will do the three main steps:[15]
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Use javac to compile the .java source to .class files.
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Use jar to archive the class files, manifest, and configuration file.
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Copy the jar file to the server. ...
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