Am 05.07.2013 23:28, schrieb Kevin J. Cummings: > On 07/05/2013 12:50 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Amadeus W.M. <amadeu...@verizon.net >> <mailto:amadeu...@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
it is a ordinary zip-archive like openoffice-documents too that's why "unzip whatever.jar" works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAR_%28file_format%29
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