Reads the jenkins plugins installed on an existing instance and exports the shortnames

export-jenkins-plugins.sh

#!/bin/bash

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# Reads the jenkins plugins installed on an existing instance and exports the shortnames
# run as follows:
# export-jenkins-plugins.sh <server-adress> <username> 
# e.g. 
# export-jenkins-plugins.sh localhost:8080 admin
# This command requires to install jq 
# https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/
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if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
	echo -e "At least a host parameter is expected. Please execute as follows:"
	echo -e "export-jenkins-plugins.sh <host> <username>"
	exit 1
fi
server_addr=${1}

if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
	user=""
else
	user="-u ${2}"
fi

# condensed json
#format='{shortName, version,longName,url}'

#list of shortnames
format=".shortName"

curl -s -k $user "https://${server_addr}/pluginManager/api/json?depth=1" \
  | jq ".plugins[]|${format}" -c | sort \
  > plugin-list 

echo "Hey my friend, here's your list: "
cat plugin-list