Unarchive Jar Files

[Gary Jarrel]

It's a java archive, I normally use "jar" command from one of the JDKs 

jar xf <jar-file> usually does the trick.

- gary

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 14:39 +1000, Alfred Vahau 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.
> 
> Alfred,
> 
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