Question

Is there a way to extract a jar file to a specific directory? For instance, I’m in foo directory, which contains the subfolder bar; all my jars files are at the same level at bar. So I passed the command jar xf my.jar -C bar/ However when I went to bar folder, the files were not extracted. Is there a way for me to do it without having to move the jar file to bar?

Thanks

Answer 1

I don’t think jar supports this, but unzip does. Try:

unzip my.jar -d bar

The behaviour is the same as the jar command, because jar files are the same as zip files.