'list installed' command?

[eprozium]

Hi,

How to find what is installed with Sdkman?

There doesn't seem to be a sdk list installed commands, and just calling sdk list simply shows all potential SDKs to install.

Thanks.

[marc0der]

Please refrain from using Github issues for usage questions. Use the Gitter user-issues chat instead.

[eprozium]

@marc0der it's not a usage question :) .

[marc0der]

Sorry for sounding harsh, that was not the intention. The website usage page clearly states that the command to use here is sdk current.

[eprozium]

Thank you very much. Not sure how I missed that one :( .

[mvysny]

Thanks, helped me as well. Intuitively I also went for sdk list --installed or something like that.

[btassone]

Probably a good thing to consider changing sdk list, to sdk available. 1 makes more sense, and 2 that frees you up for using sdk list to show the list of installed. sdk current isn't exactly clear on what it does in its name as sdk list would be for showing all installed. Better yet, get rid of sdk current and just add a sdk list --installed. Probably even better.

[marc0der]

@btassone apologies for never replying on this but don't think I ever got notified about your comment.

I agree that renaming list to available would make a lot of sense. It would however be very confusing for all our long-time users though.

Regarding the other suggestion of qualifying sdk list with a --installed flag, I don't think this is a good idea as it goes against the command syntax of sdkman. We don't use flags like this anywhere else. The syntax always (strictly) falls into the pattern:

sdk <command> [version] [qualifier]

If we introduce something better or more intuitive it should fall into the same pattern.
In other words, sdk list installed would fall into this pattern, but then what does sdk list do if we rename it to available?

My suggestion that we bring about such change in small steps: Leave sdk list to be what it currently is for the time being, then introduce the installed qualifier on top of the list command to replace current. wdyt?

[wemu]

I think the last suggestion sounds best. "sounds" meaning the way it reads or is spoken. so sdk list installed and sdk list available reads nice and looks intuitive. sdk list could stay the same for some time and then change or simply point to the other statements.

[tb582]

was this ever done? - confused me for a bit this AM before some googling lol

[marc0der]

@tb582 no, still waiting for the pull requests to come in 😆

[marc0der]

@lcxw the beauty of open source is that you can contribute a solution.

[rgoldberg]

sdk list could continue as an alias for sdk available. sdk installed could implement the new functionality. I don't see a need to insert list after sdk and before available|installed.

[leo-from-spb]

I've installed several javas, how can I list them all with their paths? The 'sdk current' shows only the current one.