Hi All,
Could anybody please tell me how to open and read a jar file in linux? I am using RHEL5, and unable to open any jar file.
Is there any way through which I can open them and edit them as well. Or is it like we cannot open jar files in linux??

Thank You in advance....

kapil Bajpai

jar files are in fact zipped files. So to open it in Linux:This will in most case create a hierarchy of files.

You may then edit any file of the hierarchy with your favorite text editor.

Once done if you want to update the jar file with the edited files you can use the zip command.

But if you are a Java programmer - unfortunately I am not (yet) one - you probably know how-to proceed.

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Hello,

.jar files are java programs packaged into a single file which can be executed using 'java -jar <file.jar>'. In order to unpack, you can use 'unzip'.

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Hi All,

Rather than opening a new thread, I am re-opening an old one that has relevence with this query.

I need to open jar files, those are either having .jar extension , or not having .jar extension but need similar procudure to open them.
"java -jar <file-name>" is fine to open the abc.jar file, but what would have been done to hold the file page-by-page, as it scrolls down to the end in one go ??
But "java -jar <file-name" is not enough to open other jar files without .jar as extension. For example, say I need to see file /usr/bin/java, then :
[--/bin]# java -jar java
gives:
"Invalid or corrupt jarfile java" as error message.
Similar message comes for most of the similar jar files in various directories.

Could anybody please suggest me how to open such files, and how can I see them on a page basis ??

Regards,
Kapil.

/usr/bin/java is probably not a jar file, but a directory or an executable binary file. You can check that with following command:And, remember that to look at a jar file's content you should use unzip, not java -jar.

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