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Created January 20, 2015 17:05
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Bash script snippet to check Java version (e.g. in an init script)
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bash_check_java_version
JAVA=`which java`
JAVA_VERSION=$("$JAVA" -version 2>&1 | awk -F '"' '/version/ {print $2}' | sed 's/\(.*\)\.\(.*\)\..*/\1\2/')
if [ "$JAVA_VERSION" -lt 17 ]; then
echo "Invalid Java version found - must be at least 1.7"
exit 1
fi
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