Kill all child processes from shell script

Small and simple script. Creates Ctrl-C trap and kills all it's child processes in it. Nice to have when your script has many child processes which execution have to be stopped when main script is interrupted by Ctrl-C or other signal.

kill_child_processes() {
    isTopmost=$1
    curPid=$2
    childPids=`ps -o pid --no-headers --ppid ${curPid}`
    for childPid in $childPids
    do
        kill_child_processes 0 $childPid
    done
    if [ $isTopmost -eq 0 ]; then
        kill -9 $curPid 2> /dev/null
    fi
}

# Ctrl-C trap. Catches INT signal
trap "kill_child_processes 1 $$; exit 0" INT

for ((  i = 0 ;  i <= 5;  i++  ))
do
  # do something...
  sleep 10 &
done

wait

Exporting keys from keystore

Recently I had a similar feeling to one I had writing one of previous posts. It appeared that standard java tools do not have some basic functionality, which obviously (well, probably just for me :) ) should be there. Now I had to export key stored in keystore to share it with other department. It appeared, that keytool can't do that and you have to write tiny program by yourself. Not a big problem, really, it's even nice.

There are lots of posts in web describing how to solve that problem, and here is the best code example I found so far to solve that it.
And here is copy/paste of code snipped, just in case if original post will pass away.

File keystoreFile = new File("The filename of the keystore");
KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS"); // or whatever type of keystore you have
char[] pw = "the keystore password".toCharArray();
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(keystoreFile);
ks.load(in, pw);
in.close();
for (Enumeration en = ks.aliases(); en.hasMoreElements();)
{
    String alias = en.nextElement();
    System.out.println("  Alias\t:" + alias);
    // If the key entry password is not the same a the keystore password then change this
    KeyStore.Entry entry = ks.getEntry(alias, new KeyStore.PasswordProtection(pw)); 
    if (entry instanceof KeyStore.SecretKeyEntry) {
        System.out.println("    SecretKey");
        KeyStore.SecretKeyEntry skEntry = (KeyStore.SecretKeyEntry) entry;
        SecretKey key = skEntry.getSecretKey();
        System.out.println("      alg\t: " + key.getAlgorithm());
    } else if (entry instanceof KeyStore.PrivateKeyEntry) {
        System.out.println("    PrivateKey");
        KeyStore.PrivateKeyEntry pkEntry = (KeyStore.PrivateKeyEntry) entry;
        PrivateKey key = pkEntry.getPrivateKey();
        System.out.println("      alg\t: " + key.getAlgorithm());
        java.security.cert.Certificate certificate = pkEntry.getCertificate();
        System.out.println("      Certificate type\t: " + certificate.getType());
        System.out.println("      Public key\t: " + certificate.getPublicKey().getAlgorithm());
    } else if (entry instanceof KeyStore.TrustedCertificateEntry) {
        System.out.println("    Certificate");
        KeyStore.TrustedCertificateEntry certEntry = (KeyStore.TrustedCertificateEntry) entry;
        java.security.cert.Certificate certificate = certEntry.getTrustedCertificate();
        System.out.println("      type\t: " + certificate.getType());
    }
}

If you need to send key to someone, it handy to make it base64 encoded:

byte[] keyData = key.getEncoded();
BASE64Encoder b64Encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
String b64 = b64Encoder.encode(keyData);
System.out.println("-----BEGIN KEY-----");
System.out.println(b64);
System.out.println("-----END KEY-----");