Unarchive Jar Files

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 04:46:00 UTC 2005


On 4/12/05, Alfred Vahau <alfredv at upng.ac.pg> wrote:
> I am customizing Firefox for which the parameters are bundled up in the
> java archive file, browser.jar.
> I seem to recall that an ant command plays the same role as tar but
> cannot find it in my Ubuntu installation.
> How can I unarchive the jar files?
> 
> Out of curiosity, I ran tar and gunzip which obviously don't work.

I thought jar were zip files (i.e, have you tried unzip?)




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