jar command missing in Fedora 19?

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Jul 5 21:28:53 UTC 2013


On 07/05/2013 12:50 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Amadeus W.M. <amadeus84 at verizon.net
> <mailto:amadeus84 at verizon.net>> wrote:
> 
>     jar xf myApp.jar
> 
> 
> that's not the right command to launch a java app, you surely mean
> java -jar yourappname.jar ....

No.  jar is similar to tar, bar, etc

its stands for Java ARchive, and it works very much like tar does, right
down to a similar set of command line arguments.

What he is trying to do above is to extract files from the file myApp.jar

> 
> FC-- 
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