Solution for https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3063215/finding-the-right-version-of-the-right-jar-in-a-maven-repository

gistfile1.txt

jar_name=junit-4.12.jar

sha1sum $jar_name > jar-sha1sums.txt

shaVal=`cat jar-sha1sums.txt | cut -d " " -f1`

response=$(curl -s 'http://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?q=1:%22'$shaVal'%22&rows=20&wt=json')

formatted_response=`echo $response | grep -Po '"response":*.*'`

versionId=`echo $formatted_response | grep -Po '"v":"[0-9]*.[0-9]*"' | cut -d ":" -f2| xargs`

artifactId=`echo $formatted_response | grep -Po '"a":"[a-z]*"' | cut -d ":" -f2 | xargs`

groupId=`echo $formatted_response |   grep -Po '"g":"[a-z]*"' | cut -d ":" -f2 | xargs`

## gist created from ant2maven script @ https://github.com/sachinsshetty/ant2Maven.git

## To find latest availabe version 

lat_ver_response=$(curl -s https://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?q=g:"$groupId"+AND+a:"$artifactId"&core=gav&rows=20&wt=json)

format_lat_ver_response=`echo $lat_ver_response | grep -Po '"response":*.*'`

latestVersionId=`echo $format_lat_ver_response | grep -Po '"latestVersion":"[0-9]*.[0-9]*"' | cut -d ":" -f2| xargs`