adding multiple files to jar archive

drkstr · 12-26-2006, 05:34 PM

Hello,

I seem to be having difficulties adding more then one file to a jar archive using the command line utility.

the man page says this at the end of the parameter descriptions:

Quote:

All remaining options are considered to be names of files.

So I figured I would be able to just list the different files I want to add. I've tried a couple different ways that I know of to do this, but they all result in either an error, or only adding the first file.

Code:

jar -cvf "$TMPDIR/chrome/ff_kiox.jar" -C "$PWD/chrome/" ./content ./skin

but I get :

Code:

adding: META-INF/ (in=0) (out=0) (stored 0%)
adding: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (in=56) (out=56) (stored 0%)
adding: content/ (in=0) (out=0) (stored 0%)
<snip>...
skin: No such file or directory
Error adding ./skin to jar archive!

and the jar archive only contains the first listed directory (if I switch the order, skin will be in there, but content will error out).

I also tried:

Code:

jar -cvf "$TMPDIR/chrome/ff_kiox.jar" -C "$PWD/chrome/" ./{content,skin}

Same thing.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for the help!
...drkstr

studioj · 12-26-2006, 06:09 PM

i think if you are going to use -C you have to use it for each argument because its effects are temporary
like

Code:

jar -cvf "$TMPDIR/chrome/ff_kiox.jar" -C "$PWD/chrome/" ./content -C "$PWD/chrome/" ./skin

drkstr · 12-26-2006, 07:54 PM

ah, yes. Good catch studioj!

Thanks for the help!
...drkstr