Get filepath of active editor in Eclipse via cmdline

Question

I want to know the filepath of the currently active editor in Eclipse from outside of eclipse. Using AppleScript doesn't work, but maybe there are other ways, like JMX, MBeans or something like that...?!

In AppleScript I would do something like...

$ osascript -e 'tell app "TextEdit" to return path of first document'
/Users/muhqu/Desktop/HelloWorld.txt

Answer 1

I found a way by using Eclipse's window title. The window title includes the path to the current workspace and also the package-relative path of the current active file.

FILEPATH="$(find "$WORKSPACE" -path '*'"${PACKAGE_RELATIVE_FILEPATH#*/}")"

For the complete script see this Gist .